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 ...

The USS Wichita has been saved from retirement. The 3-year-old ship had been slated to be decommissioned along with other similar ships because of mechanical issues in some ships and what the Navy ...

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 ...

The Navy is slated to commission its newest littoral combat ship, the future USS Wichita, during a ceremony Saturday in Naval Station Mayport, Fla. Kate Lehrer, wife of Wichita native Jim Lehrer ...