The Pentagon is tightening regulations on religious exemptions to military grooming standards, requiring more detailed ...

All currently approved religious accommodations for facial hair must be reevaluated under the new guidelines within 90 days.

U.S. service members will now be granted religious exemptions from grooming standards only on “sincerely held religious ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Army Capt. Tejdeep Rattan speaks at the Pentagon. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth indicated in a speech this week that ...

Recently, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered a review of all military physical fitness and grooming standards with a focus on how these standards have loosened in the last decade. Periodically ...

Wearing beards is a core religious tenet of some faiths, which has prompted the military to grant religious accommodations to Sikh, Muslim, Christian, and Norse Pagan service members for over a decade ...