The irony is that in the US, Metric is the standard, used by all science, military, governmental etc sectors.
It’s just that the average American is too insecure to acknowledge this fact.
Insecure about what? Which side of the tape measure to use?
Honestly I don’t think many Americans are or were ever made aware that metric is the standard.
Everyone who has ever served in any branch of the US military knows this fact.
In 2020, US gvmnt estimates were 19.4m living vets in the nation. With a population of around 331m, that’s around 6%. If you include the number of non-vets civilians who’s jobs directly support the military, and who therefore are also required to use metric in their jobs, this number will be higher - I couldn’t find population estimates, but it’s at least a couple percent as the DoD alone employs a million civilians. NASA employs around 17k, and anyone working for a company who works with NASA is going to have to use metric. I’d be shocked if the number of Americans who aren’t having to use metric at work, and are therefore aware that it’s a standard here, wasn’t at least 10%.
Nowhere near a majority, but certainly significant; over 20m people warrants “many,” surely?
The irony is that in the US, Metric is the standard, used by all science, military, governmental etc sectors. It’s just that the average American is too insecure to acknowledge this fact.
The US Navy is an exception, and doesn’t use metric. Even their nuclear stuff uses the English Engineering System (Mostly imperial units.).
Yep, the US military operates on metric time
Insecure about what? Which side of the tape measure to use? Honestly I don’t think many Americans are or were ever made aware that metric is the standard.
Everyone who has ever served in any branch of the US military knows this fact.
In 2020, US gvmnt estimates were 19.4m living vets in the nation. With a population of around 331m, that’s around 6%. If you include the number of non-vets civilians who’s jobs directly support the military, and who therefore are also required to use metric in their jobs, this number will be higher - I couldn’t find population estimates, but it’s at least a couple percent as the DoD alone employs a million civilians. NASA employs around 17k, and anyone working for a company who works with NASA is going to have to use metric. I’d be shocked if the number of Americans who aren’t having to use metric at work, and are therefore aware that it’s a standard here, wasn’t at least 10%.
Nowhere near a majority, but certainly significant; over 20m people warrants “many,” surely?
Or too rebellious
Yep, how can the “greatest nation on earth” use a system that inferior countries do…