Iraq Operations Being Paid For Through OCO Funding

By Tony Bertuca / August 11, 2014 at 9:29 PM
The U.S. military's latest operations in Iraq will be funded through the Pentagon's wartime supplemental budget, though there is no cost estimate for them yet, according to a Defense Department spokesman. "The department intends to use available Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) funding to cover incremental costs associated with efforts to respond to the current situation in Iraq," Navy Cmdr. Bill Urban told InsideDefense.com in a statement. "We continue to reevaluate resource needs as the situation evolves. There is no...

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