Evangelicals formed a majority within the armed forces by 2005

Evidence

Increasingly, evangelicalism was the religion of the majority within the armed forces. In 2005, 40 percent of active duty personnel identified as evangelical, and 60 percent of military chaplains did. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 483

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the book’s central thesis: the military is the institutional site where militant Christian masculinity is produced and reinforced, feeding back into civilian evangelical culture.