" Interpretation of the International System of Units ( the Metric System of Measurement ) for the United States ".

The sea mile has also been defined as 6000 feet or 1000 fathoms, for example in Dresner's Units of Measurement.

* Inertial Measurement Units ( IMUs ) are the primary inertial system for maintaining current position ( navigation ) and orientation in missiles and aircraft.

A Dictionary of Units of Measurement, Russ Rowlett

* Annex 5 – Units of Measurement to be used in Air and Ground Operations

Annex 5, Units of Measurement to be Used in Air and Ground Operations, named in its Table 3-3 three " non-SI alternative units permitted for temporary use with the SI ": the foot ( for vertical distance = altitude ), the knot ( for speed ), and the nautical mile ( for long distance ).

* Annex 5: Units of Measurement to be Used in Air and Ground Operations

* A Dictionary of Units of Measurement

The instruments may include Digital Power Supplies ( DPS ), Parametric Measurement Units ( PMU ), Arbitrary Waveform Generators ( AWG ), Digitizers, Digital IOs, and utility supplies.

-A Dictionary of Units of Measurement

Prussian doctrine was published as Regulations for the Instruction of the Troops in Field Service and the Exercises of the larger Units of the 17th June, 1870.

The UD method was firstly introduced in 1995., and it was used extensively to measure flow and volumes with extracorporeal circuits condition such as ECMO and Hemodialysis, leading more than 150 peer reviewed publications, and now it has adapted to Intensive Care Units ( ICU ) settings as COstatus ( Transonic System Inc. Ithaca, NY ).

Units rushed to provide aid and rescue service to the residents of Florida, the Gulf Coast, and the Caribbean in the aftermath of the traumatic and prolonged 1995 hurricane season.

Units Two and Three were restarted in 1991 and 1995, respectively.

Units of the US Air Force were based at Alconbury from 1942-1945, and then from 1953 to 1995.

According to the CIA Factbook, the United States is one of three countries that has not adopted the International System of Units ( SI ) metric system as their official system of weights and measures.

Such standards are defined in the International System of Units ( abbreviated SI from French: Système international d ' unités ) and maintained by national standards organizations such as the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the United States.

Category: United States Army Direct Reporting Units

Although the United Kingdom did not suffer invasion in World War II, preparations were made for a British resistance movement in the event of a German invasion ( see Auxiliary Units ).

Over the Front: A Complete Record of Fighter Aces and Units of the United States and French Air Services, 1914 – 1918.

* Canceled Nuclear Units Ordered in the United States

An illustrative example of this is the modular integration employed by the United States Marine Corps, which can take elements from its regimentally grouped forces and specifically tailor combined arms task forces for a particular mission or the deployed Marine Expeditionary Units ( MEU ).

The United States Marine Corps deploys battalions from its regiments in Marine Expeditionary Units or MEUs.

* MEU ( SOC ) pistol, the standard-issue side arm for the Force Recon Element of the United States Marine Corps ' Marine Expeditionary Units.

The symbol " µg " ( mu-g ) conforms to the International System of Units and is often used in scientific literature, but the United States-based JCAHO recommends that hospitals do not use this symbol in handwritten orders due to the risk that the symbol µ might be misread as the prefix m, resulting in a thousandfold overdose.

: see: Organization of United States Air Force Units in the Gulf War for a list of Air National Guard units.

* Nephelometric Turbidity Units ( NTU ) specified by United States Environmental Protection Agency is a special case of FTU, where a white light source and certain geometrical properties of the measurement apparatus are specified.

In the United States environmental monitoring the turbidity standard unit is called Nephelometric Turbidity Units ( NTU ), while the international standard unit is called Formazin Nephelometric Unit ( FNU ).

Units of the Special Force, such as 2 RCHA, 8th Hussars, PPCLI, and 1 RCR earmarked for service in Korea were concentrated at Petawawa before transferring to the United States for departure to the Korean Theatre.

The Auxiliary Units or GHQ Auxiliary Units were specially trained, highly secret units created by the United Kingdom government during the Second World War, with the aim of resisting the expected occupation of the United Kingdom by Nazi Germany, after a planned invasion codenamed Operation Sea Lion.

Units from the United Nations mission MINURSO separate the two sides, and enforce cease-fire regulations on their troops.

Gubbins was also responsible for setting up the secret Auxiliary Units, a civilian force to operate behind the German lines if the United Kingdom was invaded during Operation Sea Lion, Germany's planned invasion.

While all U. S customary units have been redefined in terms of SI units, the United States does not commonly mandate the use of SI, making it, according to the CIA Factbook, one of three countries that has not adopted the International System of Units ( SI ) metric system as their official system of weights and measures, along with Burma ( Myanmar ) and Liberia.

In the NUTS ( Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics ) codes of the United Kingdom ( UK ), the three levels are:

In an administrative reorganization by HQ Army Air Force, on 1 May 1944, numbered training units in the Zone of the Interior ( ZI ) ( Continental United States ) were re-designated as " Army Air Force Base Units ".

* Lt-Col H. F. Joslen, Orders of Battle, United Kingdom and Colonial Formations and Units in the Second World War, 1939 – 1945, Volume I, London: HM Stationery Office, 1960 / Uckfield: Naval & Military, 2003, ISBN 1843424746.

During World War II, Anthony's father, Major Lord Ashley served as a British Intelligence Officer with the Auxiliary Units, which were highly covert Resistance groups trained to engage and counteract the expected invasion of the United Kingdom by Nazi Germany.

They were redefined in the United Kingdom in 1824 by a Weights and Measures Act, which retained many but not all of the unit names with slightly different values, and again in the 1970s by the International System of Units as a subset of the metric system.

Welford is now under the command of the 420 Munitions Squadron, and comes under the command of the 501st Combat Support Wing, with headquarters at RAF Alconbury, which provides support to the Geographically Separated Units ( GSU ) s in the United Kingdom.

The United Kingdom put in place the Auxiliary Units.

* Auxiliary Units ( United Kingdom )