{"id":124947,"date":"2022-04-14T13:54:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T17:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=124947"},"modified":"2022-04-14T14:00:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T18:00:49","slug":"124947","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=124947","title":{"rendered":"Marine Grooming Standards Unsat"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"
\nPermanent?<\/p>\n

Want to serve but the military grooming standards aren’t to your liking? Lawyer up!<\/p>\n

Poetrooper and AW1 Rod send.<\/p>\n

Sikhs sue Marine Corps to allow turbans, beards at all times<\/h3>\n

RYAN MORGAN<\/strong><\/p>\n

A group of observant Sikh plaintiffs is suing the U.S. Marine Corps this week for the right to wear their turbans and grow their beards at all times, in accordance with their religious practices.<\/p>\n

Marine Capt. Sukhbir Singh Toor and pre-accession Marine recruits Milaap Singh Chahal, Aekash Singh and Jaskirat Singh filed a lawsuit on Monday afternoon, with support from the Sikh American Veterans Alliance (SAVA), arguing that the Marine Corps should allow them to wear their long-hair, beards and turbans in all settings, including deployments.<\/p>\n

The four Sikh plaintiffs are being represented by the Sikh Coalition, which advocates on behalf of the faith. In a Tuesday press release, Sikh Coalition said the Marine Corps had granted Toor \u201ca historic, but incomplete and inadequate, accommodation.\u201d The accommodation let Toor wear his beard and turban, except when on deployment.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt present, their incomplete accommodations bar them from maintaining their beard and unshorn hair (one of the five Sikh articles of faith) on deployments where they would receive Hostile Fire or Imminent Danger pay, even though deployment to the front lines is essential to service in the USMC,\u201d Sikh Coalition said of the plaintiffs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

American Military News<\/a><\/p>\n

Likely a done deal- the Army caved on this during the Obama administration. Thanks, gentlemen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Permanent? Want to serve but the military grooming standards aren’t to your liking? Lawyer up! Poetrooper … Marine Grooming Standards Unsat<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,406,184,611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-guest-link","category-marine-corps","category-pentagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}