Milaap Singh Chahal, Jaskirat Singh and Aekash Singh each tried to enlist in the Marine Corps between March and November 2021, according to a December 23 decision from the US Court of Appeals for ...

In April 2022, Jaskirat Singh, Milaap Singh Chahal and Aekash Singh filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Marine Corps’ ban on articles of faith in boot camp. Sikh men traditionally all ...

Jaskirat Singh has become the first US Marine to graduate while wearing a turban and beard, both of which are considered sacramental in Sikhism. Singh, who graduated on 11 August, ...

Jaskirat Singh (third from right) stands in formation with Golf Company, 2nd Recruit Training Battalion, at a graduation ceremony at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego Aug. 11, 2023.

Pfc. Jaskirat Singh, third from the right, marches with the Marine Corps’ Golf Company, 2nd Recruit Training Battalion, at a graduation ceremony Aug. 11, 2023, ...

Plantiffs Jaskirat Singh and Milaap Singh Chahal with Daniel Blomberg, a lawyer from the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, outside a D.C. appeals court in October 2022. (The Becket Fund for ...

The Marines cannot require the recruit, Jaskirat Singh, “to shave or otherwise cut the hair on his head or shave or otherwise cut his beard” in order to enter boot camp, District Court Judge ...

Pfc. Jaskirat Singh stood at attention -- while wearing a turban, beard and unshorn hair -- as he listened to the national anthem play on the parade deck at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego.

Now a private first class, Singh, 21, has become the first Marine known to have made it through boot camp with his Sikh articles of faith, including unshorn hair and a turban, beard and steel ...