I caught that too. Perhaps these reporters who are "living" with military units for many months so far and more weeks (hopefully only days) to come will start picking up metric by osmosis. Its like someone who visits a foreign country long enough will start speaking the language without realizing it.
Howard Ressel Project Design Engineer, Region 4 (585) 272-3372 >>> Brian J White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/20/03 10:21PM >>> So Walter Rodgers was reporting just now from a convoy of the 7th Cav rolling into Iraq. Everything he said was full metric. "We're about 40 meters behind the lead M1 Abrams." "We're doing about 45 kilometers per hour" He said something else as "half a kilometer." Good job Walt. Then Aaron Brown is on...talking his way through stuff and says "Well....Walt's riding on this tank doing about....uhh...err....about 40 miles per hour, don't talk to me in kilometers like we just did...laugh laugh..." Uhh...what a moron.
