Case of the Week: Ten-hut! Follow Marine Corps’ new religious grooming rules

Marines Corps basic training strives to tamp down individuality and nonconformity in favor of uniformity in dress and grooming. For decades, male recruits have had to cut their hair, shave their beards and don the Marine uniform. Now a lawsuit by Sikh recruits has forced the Marines to accept that dress and grooming standards can’t be so rigid that they discriminate on the basis of religion.