This is fantastic news. According to NPR:
“While Sikhs used to serve in the Army while observing their religion’s requirements for wearing turbans and not shaving their hair and beards, the Army eliminated the exemption in 1984.
Until now. After much advocacy from the Sikh community, the Army relented for Rattan and for a fellow Sikh who will be trained as a medic this summer.
“It was definitely a very humbling experience,” Rattan tells NPR’s Robert Siegel. “I have a lot of responsibilities on my shoulder. Not even as a soldier, but as a Sikh.”
