The US Army uses a lot of metric measurments, due to NATO. The Navy can get away with it as there is little connection between ships in hardware.
The US is one of only three countries that still don't use metric. I don't think the rest of the world will convert to suit America! I know there was a stink in the US when ex-pat Aussies found that shipments of vegiemite were being destroyed at the border, due to the fact they didn't have imperial weights on them! Yet the Carmello Koala's got through despite them only haveing the metric weight on them!
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