The Army National Guard has detailed $24 billion in shortfalls across the Pentagon's new six-year spending plan, including $13.1 billion in additional funds needed to procure trucks, helicopters and other equipment it says is essential to supporting operations in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as homeland defense missions. According to documents prepared by the National Guard Bureau, the largest unfunded equipment requirements between fiscal years 2008 and 2013 are for humvees, trucks, helicopters, radios and night-vision goggles, including "an immediate...
