Originally Published in https://www.public.navy.mil February 27, 2018 By Commander, Naval Surface Force, US Pacific Fleet Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer has approved Key West, Florida as the site for the commissioning of the future USS Billings (LCS 15). The event will take place in August 2019. The specific date…
Originally Published in The Billings Gazette October 5, 2018 By Mike Ferguson mferguson@billingsgazette.com Members of the USS Billings’ Blue Crew compare their almost ready Freedom-class littoral combat ship to a sports car. “You can say that it’s super cool,” said Aaron Helgerson of Freeman, South Dakota, the ship’s executive officer….
Originally Published in The Billings Gazette September 18, 2018 By Mike Ferguson mferguson@billingsgazette.com A Billings man who served on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany during the Vietnam War might have been the last American to see Navy aviator Lt. Cdr. John McCain before McCain was shot…
Originally Published in The Billings Gazette February 11, 2018 By Rob Rogers The Navy in January accepted delivery of the USS Billings, a Freedom-class littoral combat ship, during a ceremony at the Fincantieri Marinette Marine shipyard in Marinette, Wisconsin. The combat ship, which will officially become the USS Billings upon…
Originally Published in Navy News Service Feburary 5, 2019 http://www.navy.mil Story Number: NNS190205-01 Release Date: 2/5/2019 8:29:00 AM From PEO Unmanned and Small Combatants Public Affairs MARINETTE, Wis. (NNS) — The Navy accepted delivery of the future USS Billings (LCS 15) during a ceremony at the Fincantieri Marinette Marine (FMM),…
