USS Wichita (LCS-13) conducts acceptance trials on Lake Michigan on July 11, 2018. Lockheed Martin Photo
A Littoral Combat Ship, with an embarked Coast Guard law enforcement detachment, will hunt for drug runners in U.S. Southern Command later this year, the command’s top officer told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday.
Adm. Craig Faller said the LCS deployment was top of his list of wants for his command followed by more intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets, a...