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Originally Posted by Chaotic42
They could use UTMs instead of Geographic Coordinates.
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That wouldn't exactly simplify things because you'd have to train people how to use those exclusively as well. If having to go metric means adding that to the situation, and the idea of going metric was to simplify things...well I don't see it being any simpler at all.
Medical use is metric yeah, but those sort of guys usually aren't doing your navigation or picking the right size shell out of the magazine so not really comparable. If your corpsmen are doing those things you have bigger problems than wondering exactly how many km it is to the next Starbucks...
Basically I'm going with the old "if it ain't broke don't fix it" standby.
(and if people from countries who use metric can't understand it, but our guys can, then that doesn't classify it as "broken" in my book either)
