They could also restore a lot of the other trashed vehicles for donation to the real owners of the equipment, the American citisen. :)
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That brings up another issue ,,, military Humvees , MRAPS , APC’s ,,, None of them meet NHTSA or EPA specs and are banned from public roads ... we would never be able to get a license plate on one ... how are these agencies getting them on the road? They’re not old enough to be exempted. Who is breaking the law to get these on public roads?
I’d love to have a H1 Hummer for off roading...
The goobermint is starting to auction "select" humvees to the general public. These are the ones so trashed, they can't even give them to other agencies. While they're spending time and money restoring them, the lucky owners can probably scrounge enough civilian parts from the old civilian H1 Hummer to bring things back to commercial specs for that model year.
Some people collect and restore antique military and civilian vehicles. They can run them on the road without plates for a limited number of miles each year. Or they can find an old junker with a title, and weld the part of the firewall with the VIN plate, making it that "original" car. This is done just so the state knows it exists, and gets license fees from it, depending on how it's titled.
Depending on the state, it could also get "vintage", "historic", or other designations. After all, every one of these vehicles were street-legal at some time or other, and can be again, even if more hoops have to be jumped through.