To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide that members of the Armed Forces who are Sikhs shall be allowed to wear turbans, and to have beards and hair lengths, in accordance with the dictates of the Sikh faith.

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Prohibits the Secretary of the military department concerned from: (1) regulating the length of hair or the appearance of facial hair of a member of the armed forces who is a Sikh, if such regulation would abridge the exercise of the religious faith of such member; and (2) determining that a turban worn as an item of religious apparel by a member who is a Sikh is not neat and conservative.

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