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The Marines Reluctantly Let a Sikh Officer Wear a Turban. He Says It's Not Enough.
NYT via Yahoo ^ | 09 26 2021 | Dave Philipps

Posted on 09/26/2021 11:20:03 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

Almost every morning for five years, 1st Lt. Sukhbir Toor has pulled on the uniform of the U.S. Marine Corps. On Thursday, he also got to put on the turban of a faithful Sikh.

It was a first for the Marine Corps, which almost never allows deviations from its hallowed image, and it was a long-awaited chance for the officer to combine two of the things he holds most dear.

“I finally don’t have to pick which life I want to commit to, my faith or my country,” Toor, 26, said in an interview. “I can be who I am and honor both sides.”

His case is the latest in a long-running conflict between two fundamental values in the U.S. military: the tradition of discipline and uniformity, and the constitutional liberties the armed forces were created to defend.

While Sikh troops in Britain, Australia and Canada have long worn turbans in uniform, and scores of Sikhs do so now in other branches of the military, Toor’s turban is the first in the 246-year history of the Marine Corps. For generations, the Marine Corps has fought any change to its strict appearance standards, saying that uniformity was as essential to a fighting force as well-oiled rifles.

The Marine Corps has made the allowance only to a point. Toor can wear a turban in daily dress at normal duty stations, but he cannot do so while deployed to a conflict zone, or when in dress uniform in a ceremonial unit, where the public could see it.

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KEYWORDS: dirtyturban; diversity; marines; military; sikh; standards; sukhbirtoor; turban; wokemilitary
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As diversity increases traditions and standards fall.
1 posted on 09/26/2021 11:20:04 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen
First Lieutenant Sukhbir Toor is Sikh.

That's all that needs to be said.

2 posted on 09/26/2021 11:27:24 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: kiryandil

General discharge for failure to adapt.

When you’re a Marine, you’re a Marine. You dress, act and behave as a Marine.

If you have to make yourself different, go somewhere else and be something else.

Semper Fi.


3 posted on 09/26/2021 11:33:28 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Grimmy
I'll bet the looey could beat your weak old @ss.   winking face
4 posted on 09/26/2021 11:36:46 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: yesthatjallen

Low life. Selfish prick didn’t learn a damned thing in his training.

He thinks he’s the only Marine who has a personal life with a faith or culture?


5 posted on 09/26/2021 11:40:58 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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To: yesthatjallen

What, does he want to carry a dagger too? Wear all white? Make himself a target for enemy fire?


6 posted on 09/26/2021 11:41:43 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: yesthatjallen

This should not have been allowed. If he cannot serve following the rules set for everyone, then he should not serve.


7 posted on 09/26/2021 11:44:03 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Respect America, Embrace America, Buy American, Hire American.)
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To: Reno89519
This should not have been allowed. If he cannot serve following the rules set for everyone, then he should not serve.

Surrender and capitulation to diversity. Every tradition and every standard is in the cross hair.

The result will be no standards and no traditions. We're witnessing the dismantling and destruction of Western civilization.

8 posted on 09/26/2021 11:50:50 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen
“I finally don’t have to pick which life I want to commit to...

Everybody else does, one way or another. I wanted to be a long haired hippy on a chopper in 1972. I joined the Army and made it a career.

9 posted on 09/26/2021 11:54:54 PM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: kiryandil; Grimmy; Travis McGee; Pelham

What’s your credibility kiryandi?

Grimmy is a marine who served,

Can you match that?


10 posted on 09/27/2021 12:00:21 AM PDT by wardaddy (Fear Republic land of grumps and scolds peppered with good folks .....empathy always in short supply)
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To: yesthatjallen

ok kick him out then


11 posted on 09/27/2021 12:02:19 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: kiryandil

No.

It also needs to be said that he’s not a Marine.

Nitwit...


12 posted on 09/27/2021 12:13:30 AM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: yesthatjallen

Can an enlisted female wear a burka?


13 posted on 09/27/2021 12:34:21 AM PDT by zencycler
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To: yesthatjallen

And amazingly, thete are millions among us that are smiling in the shadows as the curtain comes down on the civilized world


14 posted on 09/27/2021 12:45:58 AM PDT by Jaysin (Trump can’t be beat, if the Democrats don’t cheat)
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To: wardaddy; Grimmy
I have my creds.

He's welcome to come for me.

15 posted on 09/27/2021 12:46:09 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: wardaddy

I’ve always liked you, but you have NO idea who I am.


16 posted on 09/27/2021 12:48:29 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Laslo Fripp

That Marine boy could take you apart like a Lego toy, old man.


18 posted on 09/27/2021 12:54:18 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: datura
Sikhs are the most implacable enemies of the Musloids on the planet.

I would expect that his desire to wear the honorific of his people in defiance of little Barry and the Smirking Chimp's gonad slurping of our mortal enemies would be a GOOD thing.

You're welcome to slurp alongside the Chimp, of course...  winking face

19 posted on 09/27/2021 1:03:39 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: yesthatjallen

Namrata Randhawa, aka “Nikki Haley” is also Sikh.


20 posted on 09/27/2021 1:04:51 AM PDT by libh8er
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