Kamaljeet Singh Kalsi: Taking on rules to ease Sikhs' path to the US army

The Sikhs of northwestern India have for centuries cherished their rich military history. Wearing long beards and turbans into combat, they have battled Mughals in Punjab, Afghans near the  Khyber Pass  and Germans in the bloody trenches of the Somme. But when  Maj. Kamaljeet Singh Kalsi , an American Sikh raised in New Jersey, signed up for  the  United States Army , that tradition counted for nothing. Before sending him to officer basic training, the Army told him that he would have to give up the basic symbols of his religion: his beard…