Perhaps some financial aid. According to the above article.
Washington announced that it was considering sending more supplies to the Lebanese army after Congress last month approved a seven-fold increase in military assistance for 2007 to 280 million dollars.
You can compare the lebanese army to the german army under the limitation of its weaponry following the first world war : no tanks, no heavy weaponry, no advanced (then) weapons... That did not forbid this german army to build mock up tanks etc... and conduct extensive training, so that when their industry delivered the first tanks, it was the best European Army.
Now coming back to Lebanon. The government of Lebanon kept the lebanese army at its weaponry of 1990, lacking spare parts, ammunition and modern communications systems. Mr. Rafic Hariri considered during his heading of the government (1992-2004) that he did not need an army, and that the Syrian Army was “necessary, legal and temporary”. Those were his own words. He imposed a compulsory draft so that all the population was distracted from what was really going on. And now, his successor, Mr. Siniora, since June 2005, considered (up till now) that he did not need an army too. He channeled all available funds to create an internal security force that proved politicized and unprofessional. Add to this the limits imposed by the US administration on arming the Lebanese Army. For example the UAE presented the Army with a gift of about 10 Gazelle combat helicopters (do you remember the movie Blue Thunder?), they had to be “demilitarized”, the same goes for the 30-meter gunboats, and you name it... The US has lately provided the lebanese army with a number of the ill-fated hummvees, they could have changed them for body armor and helmets instead.
Now that Al-Qaeda is knocking at the door, C-17 cargo planes are landing in Beirut airport, bringing the necessary tools for this operation and only this one. Yet this is not an aid strictly speaking, it has to be paid for later on. Twisted minds are whispering that these weapons are being split between the Lebanese Army and local milicias endorsed by Washington, as Hezbollah does not need arming. I do not believe them, do you?