The Army budget chief today stressed the service's concerns about the size of a pending fiscal year 2009 emergency supplemental request to pay for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. "I don't think there's the same certainty with supplemental funding as there is with base" budget funding, Lt. Gen. David Melcher said during a briefing at the Pentagon to discuss the service's FY-09 budget request. The Army's base budget request is for $140.7 billion. The highest portion of that -- nearly...
