[wideminded]

the USMC has always been about 60% Catholic

This sounds awfully high to me. I wasn't able to find the current breakdown but I did find the Marine casualty statistics from Viet Nam:

Protestant: 61%

Roman Catholic: 33%

[saradippity]

Well,it seems to me that shows Catholics were either overrepresented among the troops or they were less able to defend themselves and thus died.

This country has always had between 17% and 23% Catholics,the fact that 33% lost their lives in Nam supports either that Catholics go into the military in higher numbers than non-Catholics or are more apt to die.

I don't know about the 60% number either.

[Thorondir]

I guess we fight better.