{"id":152936,"date":"2026-01-28T06:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/152936\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T06:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:28:12","slug":"kern-county-honor-flight-seeking-vets-for-next-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/152936\/","title":{"rendered":"Kern County Honor Flight seeking vets for next trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 Kern County Honor Flight has sent about 3,000 veterans to Washington, D.C., since its inception.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lili Marsh and Anthony Cortez, with Honor Flight Kern County, joined 17 News at Noon to discuss what the nonprofit needs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWhen I went on my first flight, Honor Flight 47, I went as a veteran,\u201d said Cortez. \u201cWhen I came back it just kindled the fire in me, that I lost when I got out of the military. I wanted to start a breakfast and that\u2019s what I did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An upcoming flight for vets, scheduled for April 20, might not be full. Organizers are asking those who might know of a veteran willing to participate, to reach out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Honor Flight sponsors are needed for a monthly Honor Flight breakfast in Delano, according to Cortez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 Kern County Honor Flight has sent about 3,000 veterans to Washington, D.C., since its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75313,151,153,152,511,735],"class_list":{"0":"post-152936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-anthony-cortez","9":"tag-bakersfield","10":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","11":"tag-bakersfield-news","12":"tag-honor-flight","13":"tag-kern-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}