It should be noted that we are never given any real idea of the extent of Project stocks. We have the caches, but they are meant to be immediate, on-hand supplies that Teams can leverage for use in isolation. Resupply or more extensive supplies would come from places like Starnaman.
I would also question the 25lb per day number - that seems very high, especially considering that the Project was expecting to operate 5 years after a war. The population should have mostly stabilized, the assistance that was needed was in elevating a degraded civilization, not rebuilding from a natural disaster. 6 months in, the US was still going to be far behind where it had been pre-war, but they would be on a path to recovery.
And on the ammunition front, remember that any adversaries were expected to be in worse straits, so the danger of running out of ammo is far less than it would be against a modern military with full logistic support. You're expecting to fight guys with a handful of ammo in their pocket, not a truckload of 7.62. Just showing up with an M249 may be enough to show them they are outgunned and make them withdraw or surrender.
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