The Department of Defense completed its fifth annual audit, and while progress was made, it again failed.

The independent audit, which was published by the DOD Inspector General on Tuesday, is a massive undertaking in which independent accountants dig into every aspect of the department (an organization that employed nearly 3 million people with more than 640,000 assets located on more than 4,860 sites in more than 40 foreign countries) that encompasses more than 25 million acres.