The USS Wichita is fighting for her life. Not in combat, but in Congress. The Navy plans to decommission the Wichita a mere three years after it joined the fleet, because it has the naval ...

Shortly after leaving Detroit, the U.S. Navy announced that its next Freedom-Class Littoral Combat Ship the USS Wichita would be commissioned in early January 2019. The commissioning ceremony is ...

The commissioning ceremony for the USS Wichita, a Freedom-class littoral combat ship named for the Air Capital city, will be held in Mayport, Fla., on Saturday, and among the ship’s crew will be ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - On Friday, the city of Wichita received a World War II bell that was on the U.S.S. Wichita. It’s a gift from an American Legion Post in Somerville, Tennessee. Before the ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: The USS Wichita is a Freedom-class littoral combat ship. Because of a Times-Union error, this was incorrect in the original captions for this story. There’s been at least one ...

Rowan is currently the commanding officer of the USS Wichita. Like the USS Billings, the USS Wichita is a littoral combat ship. The USS Billings is named after the city of Billings and was ...