{"id":438044,"date":"2026-08-20T05:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T05:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/438044\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T05:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T05:26:10","slug":"fletcher-teacher-prepares-for-coast-guard-deployment-to-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/438044\/","title":{"rendered":"Fletcher teacher prepares for Coast Guard deployment to California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">FLETCHER, Okla. (KSWO) &#8211; A Fletcher teacher is leaving her post as an educator to help others in a different setting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A reservist in the United States Coast Guard, Ms. Nita Whitman is being deployed on a mission to California to assist Port Security Units with training and deployment operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Her students and fellow staff members gathered Wednesday to give her a proper sendoff, celebrating her service to our country, as well as her time in Fletcher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cMiss Whitman is living proof of just the kind of citizen that we want to produce: the selflessness, the sacrifice, the commitment to not only her students but her country. It\u2019s exactly what we\u2019re trying to instill in every Wildcat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Ms. Whitman has been a member of the Coast Guard since 2000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For her part, she says she is proud to assist and support during critical relief efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KSWO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FLETCHER, Okla. (KSWO) &#8211; A Fletcher teacher is leaving her post as an educator to help others in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[173755,7,9,8,116725,173754,100],"class_list":["post-438044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-7news","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-fletcher","tag-kswo","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438044","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=438044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}