One fact that I remember that might be relevant to the discussion, in 1986 or 1987 the US military felt that they had lost track of too many vehicles within their own structure. A full inventory was ordered that was supposed to take into account things like damaged but reparable vehicles, vehicles stripped down to their frames, etc. The scale of the problem was so great that the most optimistic end goal of the inventory was to get an accurate count +/- 50,000 vehicles.
That size of that number stunned me to the point that I remember it clearly until today. (I believe the source was a 86/87 US Air Force published magazine)
If things can be that bad internally with vehicles counts inside a structure fully controlled by the federal government, I can't imagine what would slip through their fingers when they try to go outside that which they directly control.
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