WASHINGTON — The White House's new $5.6 billion request for additional funding to fight the military advances of the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria contains specific provisions that begin to detail the scope of the missions launched so far and how expensive it will be to station US ground troops in Iraq in the coming months.

The request comes along with the Obama administration's Friday announcement that it is sending an additional 1,500 troops to Iraq to bolster the 1,600 already authorized to help train, advise and assist the beleaguered Iraqi security forces.

The breakdown of the new request includes $1.6 billion to establish the Iraq Train and Equip Fund, which would pay for training both Iraqi and Kurdish forces, plus a hefty new operations and maintenance (O&M) request for the services to operate fixed- and rotary-wing assets in Iraq and Syria as part of Operation Inherent Resolve and to transport troops and equipment throughout the region.

The US Air Force would also receive $931 million for O&M activities, while the Army would get $779 million, the Navy $122 million and the DoD overall would receive another $464 million.

But when it comes to replacing actual equipment and munitions used so far, a clearer picture is emerging of what has been expended.

The two biggest requests are $55 million to buy "small tactical" drones and $54 million for "tactical missiles for the Navy such as the Tomahawk and laser guided Maverick missiles that were expended" in operations. Both the Tomahawk and Maverick are produced by Raytheon.

The Pentagon has also decided that it needs $49 million more to procure joint direct attack munition (JDAM) conversion kits that can turn unguided "dumb" bombs into satellite-guided munitions, and $21 million to allow the Air Force to replace the Lockheed Martin-made Hellfire missiles used so far and the small diameter bombs, made by Boeing.

American and allied aircraft have flown over 8,000 reconnaissance and combat missions over Iraq and Syria since Aug. 8, and have expended 2,178 munitions against ground targets, the US Central Command has said.

In total, the overseas contingency operations (OCO) request for 2015 had been increased to $63.6 billion for the DoD and $7.8 billion for the State Department, resulting in a $71.4 billion fiscal 2015 request, although this is still $14 billion less than the OCO placeholder submitted in the original 2015 request in June.

The overall cost of operations in Iraq and Syria is largely unknown, but given the numbers that the Pentagon has so far released, it is at least $795 million, and likely over $1 billion, according to Defense News' estimates.

Various Pentagon officials have confirmed that the cost of air operations for Operation Inherent Resolve over Iraq and Syria has been $8.3 million a day from the start of the bombing campaign on Aug. 8. But the government refuses to offer an estimate from June 16 — when US advisers first began flowing into Iraq — to the start of the bombing.

Previously, Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon spokesman, has estimated that the mission cost $7.5 million a day from June 16 onward so using that number, operations from June 16 to Aug. 7 would have run approximately $397 million, adding up to $1.1 billion overall.

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