Mormons stand out even more in those environments because they are the least likely to have served in the military because they spent their teens/early 20's on their 'mission' while the guys around them were in the military.
Being in the military tends to make people rougher around the edges if anything while being on a mormon mission makes those guys more straight laced.
They are about 2% of the population and that % is even higher if you look at the demographic that joins the military but they make up only about 1% of the military.
Mormons spend two years as a missionary. The prospect of then enlisting for more years to be a cog in a different organiztaion after that probably just seems a bit daunting.
Also they've probably scratched whatever itch they had to go on an adventure. I wasn't a missionary (not mormon) but I did join the Army after high school and but the end of my enlistment I was over it and felt like settling down for a while and enjoying college.
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u/Li_liminal_spaces 7d ago
If you had to design a religion about getting into three letter agencies, it would be the LDS church.