I'm a Canadian soldier. I'm also Sikh. I shouldn't have to choose between faith and service

This First Person column is written by Maj. Sarabjot Anand, an officer in the Canadian Armed Forces, who lives in Ottawa. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ.

In 2018, I was about to be deployed to Romania as part of Operation Reassurance on a NATO Air Policing mission. As part of the pre-deployment process, every soldier on that mission had to pass a simulated gas test to ensure our military-issued gas masks had a proper seal in case the adversary used chemical weapons. 

When I was told by the military’s departure assistance group I had to do this standardized test, I had a sinking feeling.

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