Let me add something about those numbers.
One of the reason that I believe that the Army awards more BSMs, and only talking about those without "V", is that there is no unit equiv award. Where the Navy/Marine Corps MUC is the individual equiv of a BSM, the Army awards manual states that the Army MUC is the equiv of the Leigon of Merit. A higher award than the BSM.
So where the M/C could give an exceptional unit a MUC the Army really has no equivilent. SO what do you do? Not recognize the bravery and hard work or award lots of personal awards?
FYI:
Combat related service award Equiv individual award
Presidential Unit CItation (PUC) Service Cross (ie Navy Cross)
Navy Unit Commendation (NUC) Silver Star/ Legion of Merit
Valorous Unit Award (Army) Silver Star
Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation (MUC) Bronze Star
Army Meritorious Unit Commendation Legion of Merit
So a more fair set of numbers would include N/MC numbers for MUCs. I'll bet it looks a little more fair
