Military pace

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Military pace is one of the old American measures of length. It corresponds to the stride length when marching military units.

1 Military pace = 30 inches = 2.5 feet = 0.762 meters

literature

Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old measures, coins and weights: a lexicon. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim 1986, ISBN 978-3-41102-148-2 , p. 186.