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But yeah, so this is a little informational video about... A little information. The last time I wore this shirt, Hustaji Zakhir Hussein pointed out you got a new shirt. Yep. You want to touch that? This is the shirt I was wearing when we were with him. You only have two shirts. That's true. Here we go. Since 1775, the military has broadly protected the religious liberty of its troops. But in 1981... This is American military. US military. Yeah. The military broke from that tradition when it passed a ban on all beards. The result, the near total exclusion of the world's fifth largest religion, Sikhism. I didn't even think about that. In the early days of the Sikh religion in South Asia, Sikhs suffered severe religious persecution. Defending themselves and their neighbors became a core part of their identity. Since then, Sikhs have populated armies worldwide and earned a reputation among the world's best warriors. I've had this fascination with that with the soldiers' life ever since I was a little kid. You know, hearing stories about my great-grandfather, serving the world worldwide. This is Captain Simran Paul Singh. He goes by Simran. Growing up, he was an all-American high school student, just with a beard and a turban. I always had, you know, long hair. Never, never cut my hair. And I had a pretty awesome beard by my senior year of high school. For Sikhs, unshorned hair, turbans, and beards symbolize the core principles of their faith, such as equality, justice, and selfless service. After high school, Simran was endorsed by his local congressman and accepted into West Point. On his first day, he wore his beard and turban, thinking he would get an accommodation. He was wrong. Before he knew it, he was faced with a choice. Cut his beard or go home. And basically, I went inside the barbershop. You know, I had never been inside a barbershop. Sat down. Oh, man. I don't think the lady knew. She didn't know the significance. She didn't know that my entire life was being changed, right? Like, everything that I've been taught was just being shattered, you know, in five minutes. I think the way I made that decision, the way I justified it in my mind was that I'll figure out a way. Right? I'll figure out a way to come back. That was a promise that I made to myself. There are more guys like Simran out there, and a handful of them have received accommodations for their beards and turbans. And their success in the military has disproven the necessity to exclude other. That's right. Chaplain Goldstein is the longest-serving Jewish chaplain in the armed forces. I have been in some pretty tough places with a beard, my helmet, and the mission was never degraded or challenged a threat. Major Kamal Kallsi was also accommodated after petitions from the Sikh community. His medical background during a shortage of military doctors tipped the scales in his favor. I can tell you with a hundred percent assurance that none of my fellow soldiers, or patients could care less that I was wearing a turban or a beard while I was treating their wounds. The Pentagon has claimed that a bearded soldier cannot properly wear a beard, but its own soldiers, including Kallsi, Bulls, those who wear beards for medical reasons, even the Special Forces, who wear beards for tactical advantage. I was going to just talk about seals. Disproven the Pentagon's claim. I was going to talk about the seals. The past those combat readiness training exercises, it was validated that the fact that they look a little different and their appearance does not impact their combat readiness on the battlefield. Yet the policy remained. This picture is of my entire platoon in Afghanistan. I'm in the middle. Simmer served for 10 years, was trained as an Army Ranger, and received a Bronze Star Medal for his service. Dang. When it comes to soldier service, Major Kallsi and Chapman Goldstein, he requested an accommodation of his own. Soldiers that we were with together from 562 overwhelmingly have been in support of what he's doing, which I think is a huge testament to his leadership and his character and how much he strives to be an asset to the Army. But the Army stalled for six months and tried subjecting him to discriminatory testing that far exceeded the requirements for other soldiers. So in 2016, the Beka Fund, the C Coalition, and the Kermit Will & Emery helped Simmer pursue the United States military. Simmer's secret weapon was the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, or RIFRA, which requires federal entities, including the military, to accommodate beliefs absent the compelling government interests. We are American. Without laws like RIFRA on the books that protect religious liberty, it's very difficult to bring these claims forward. It's really difficult to advocate for people's individual rights, and that has also made a very big difference in our ongoing discussions with the military. In 2016, a court ruled that the Army's treatment of Captain Singh was discriminatory, and told the Army to reconsider its regulations. The Army ultimately agreed, and in early 2017, they formally revised the 30-year-old ban to let Sikh serve. I realized that I didn't have to live in two worlds, right? I would go home and put on my turban when I was on leave, and then I'd come to work and not be wearing a turban, so that I didn't have to live that life anymore. I can be one person. My hope is that no 18-year-old kid has to make the miserable decision that I had to make to choose between their faith and their country, and that parents can tell their young kids that you can be anything that you want in the United States, and that includes military service, and still practice your faith fully. Sir, if you are watching or somebody please find them, I want to talk to you. I want you to come on the channel, because that was awesome. That was awesome. You are a legit hero. You are a legit hero, soldiers, like you are selfless to the point of doing something that I would think is unthinkable. I can't imagine the pain he felt, it makes me emotional to have to cut that. His family? My goodness. It just gets me emotional, and I understand, this is one of the things I was going to point out. The first thing that came to my mind, and I didn't want to talk over the video, and I was hoping they'd get to it, and they did. First thing I was thinking about was gas masks, and the seal that happens on a gas mask. But then I also was understanding, and this is true, especially in basic, one of the most critical things of military training is the eradication of individuality, because if you maintain individuality, you become a detriment to the core of the whole. It's one of the key elements of every facet of military training, whether it's seal training, which is the upper echelons, or you're just becoming a basic recruit in any of the branches of the military. The reason they shave your head and make you all look the same is because they want to crucify your sense of individuality. That I understand. I also understand that somebody can still serve and be committed to the core without having to have their identity destroyed. There's a difference between eradicating the idea of self versus crushing somebody's core identity. And this guy, as a Sikh, already understands the principles, the very things he wears, are the very essences of what are the core attributes of the military. Selfless service, respect, and here's the contradiction. After basic, after bud's training, most Navy SEALs have beards, man. Virtually every Navy SEAL you see, the minute bud, it's like a standard thing for a SEAL to have a beard. Yeah, I have absolutely nothing but respect for all military. It doesn't mean I have respect for the government as a whole. Oh, no! They're completely separate. Very separate. You can be very proud of the people in the military and also despise who is in charge of them. Yep. It's in no less of a patriotic. But there's a lot of issues with the military members, but the military organization as a whole, and a lot of times they're stuck in their ways. Right. They're like, okay, like you said, I know that the whole thing is for breaking you down. That's cool. But once again, this is America. You have the, you can't, just like they don't make women shape their heads. Right. Even though they make men shape their heads. Right. They don't make women shape their heads because that's part of their identity. So like, this is America, so you have religious freedom. Right. People work everywhere in this country and throughout the world with looking different. Yeah. So you can make exceptions. I get why you're doing it. I'm not saying you need to change it, but for people that it's the core of their religion and their identity, you, like, I'm so glad, I mean, I hate that you had to do it from talking to this man. I hate that you had to do it, but I'm glad you stuck out for the other people so they don't have to go through what you had to go through. Yeah. His sacrifice. Which is why I'm saying he's a true soldier. He really is. Because, again, if you are seeing this, sir, you're doing what the majority of people would understandably say, I will never do that, put you in a position where you could change it, like you said at the end, where no one else would ever have to do that. And sadly, that's typically what it takes to see some dramatic change in a culture where people have been locked in their ways for no other reason than this is just the way that we've always done it. Like I love that one gentleman who said studies were done and showed this makes no difference and it really doesn't. I understand that the outset of training, but the ultimate end result of what you produce and the quality of a soldier, it has nothing to do with any of that. Nothing to do with any of that. I get why they do it. I think they could not do it and they would still have the same effect. You can break people down without, like, because you're living with break people down. Very much the same reason as to why the military wasn't allowing women to serve in the military. There were all the things behind it about why they said you can't do that, there's too many this, there's too many that, and they realized once they let women in, oh, we were wrong, that's not an issue. And again, this too, it may be an issue in basic at the very beginning, but I think the long-term goal, why in the world would you turn away a sick from being one of your soldiers, man? It shows right there. Why the heck would you do that? That's like turning away a seven-foot-tall, really coordinated guy that can shoot threes and slam and post and say, well, because you wear your hair this way, we're not letting you play in the NBA. Yeah. I think the military has bunched it up because of that exact thing about they want everybody to look the same. Uniform. They don't let people, like, I couldn't get in some ranges of the military if I wanted to because I have tattoos. Right. So, not at all. I understand if you don't pass the physical exams. Oh, yeah. That makes sense. Some branches still, if you have tattoos that are visible, you are not. Because it's identifying. Yeah. You are not allowed in. Like I said, it's, I think it's a dated thing. It is. But, whatever, I get why they're trying to do it, I don't agree with it. And I agree because here's the deal, based on what I know about basic training, especially bud's training, whatever you think you can't get out of the person in terms of crushing their identity, that's not the core issue. The core issue is, are you going to give up when you think you're going to die? Trust me. When you're in Hell Week in bud's training, the thought of your identity is the last thing on your mind. What you're thinking at that point is, will I die or lose my mind? And you want to know if someone can push through that. Yeah. And if they can, sense of identity isn't an issue. And sex? Any more than you've got an Italian, an Irishman, and a Jew, and they're all together in the military. And I promise you in bud's, none of them are thinking about that. No. Oh, once again. Yeah. I'm glad it changed. 2017 is way too late. Way too long. Or late. Yeah. I didn't even know this was an issue, because I didn't think about the six in the US military. For some reason, I just never came to my mind. But yeah, that's an issue. It is. And here's the thing that's important, is that it changed. It needs to stay this way because as you know, you can put elected officials in who can then change laws and reverse things that have been done in the military. Yeah. Where once certain people were allowed to serve and then new administrations come in and new people are put into office and they say, no, we're going to go back to the way it was. So it could happen again and go back to that. But that was great. Hopefully not. That was great. Any more information? I'd love to actually learn more about the sick people. That's sick. I want to make sure I'm saying it correctly. Yeah, the sick. Sick people. Yup. As a whole, because we're still learning, but that made me so upset when he had to go. Yeah, the cutting and shaving of his, I just can't imagine what that was like for him. That was awful. Yeah. We salute you, sir. Thank you, sir, for your service. We salute you. Thank you all to the six throughout the world. Yeah. Who are serving in the military. It's a beautiful combination of what we salute you and Jai Hind at the same time. Absolutely. Yeah.