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According to a Muslim sergeant and an eyewitness, she was forced by a superior officer to remove her hijab in violation of her religious rights. The army's version of events is inconsistent.
According to a retired attorney for the DOD, "When you proselytize as a commander...you necessarily send doubts to the subordinates that you oversee about your impartiality and thus degrade good order and discipline, and in turn degrade combat capability."
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