An overweight retiree? Surely you jest! Not sure if you read the story or kept up with it or not but it wasn't that simple. Essentially the Army told them they would make an exception to policy for them, they went to school on the Army's dime, then when the time came for them to go AD (a condition of the Army paying for school) the Army tried to go back on their original promise and make them shave and ditch the turban...