Browsing Tag: Kamaljeet Singh Kalsi

The United States should change its policy to allow more Indian Americans to join the military without compromising on their religious beliefs and practices, the only three Sikh soldiers in the U.S. Army say.

In good Sikh tradition, he resisted. Armed with petitions and Congressional letters, he waged a two-year campaign that in 2009 resulted in the Army granting him a special exception for his unshorn hair, the first such accommodation to a policy established in the 1980s.

Major Kamaljeet Singh Kalsi is expected to call on the military to end its general ban on turbaned Sikh service during his testimony.