The pending bill includes emergency funding to finance the United States participation in NATO military operations in Kosovo and Yugoslavia. This supplemental makes available $11.0 billion in emergency. and contingency emergency. defense appropriations based on the crisis in Kosovo and the closely related readiness crisis in our armed forces. Of these funds. $10.8 billion are appropriated to the Department of Defense: The supplemental provides the $5.5 billion the President requested for military operations in Kosovo and Department of Defense refugee assistance. It also provides some very needed readiness funding. specifically: $1.0 billion for procurement of depleted munitions stocks. $1.1 billion for spare parts. stocks of which have reached crisis proportions for some weapon systems: $700 million for overdue maintenance of these same weapons systems. $100 million for recruiting to address DoDs retention crisis. $200 million to improve the declining training of military personnel in high priority military specialties. and $200 million to repair aging bases. These are important additions that clearly merit this additional funding and an "emergency" designation.