FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo.--The Defense Department will ask Congress for additional wartime spending, but leadership hasn't decided how much more to request, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Wednesday.Carter told reporters he's said since the first Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) request was submitted this for fiscal year 2016 that it's the "nature of warfare" to not know, at the beginning of the year, what everything will cost. The Pentagon is bolstered by what Carter called success in both its counter ISIL efforts and…
DoD Asking For OCO Increase, Undecided On Value
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