Hope Hodge Seck

Hope Hodge Seck is an award-winning investigative and enterprise reporter who has been covering military issues since 2009. She is the former managing editor for Military.com.

Hope’s previous assignments have included a war zone embed in Afghanistan with Marines and multiple reporting trips aboard amphibious ships and aircraft carriers. Her awards include multiple North Carolina Press Association Honors, the 2015 and 2017 Marine Corps Heritage Foundation Heinl awards for feature writing, the Military Reporters and Editors Association 2015 award for domestic military coverage, and the 2016 American Legion 4th Estate Award for print reporting. She is also a member of the board of directors at the Military Reporters and Editors Association.

A graduate of The King's College in New York City, her work has also appeared in Marine Corps Times, Newsweek, USA Today, The New York Sun, and World Magazine.

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Sailors attached to the U.S. 7th Fleet flagship USS Blue Ridge (LCC19) participate in the Physical Fitness Assessment (PFA). (U.S. Navy photo/Dylan McKay)

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test for COVID-19 infections in New Rochelle

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In this March 31, 2015, file photo, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center is shown in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)

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Members of the Pentagon Press Corps practice social distancing

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Soldiers of the 1st Theater Sustainment Command stand in formation during an in-ranks inspection.

The Military Surveyed Troops on Extremist Activity Decades Ago. Here's What it Found

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U.S. Soldiers wait to board a Korean Air Boeing 777 aircraft at Osan Air Base.

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The travel restrictions, which will be in place for 30 days starting Friday, restrict all travel for military personnel.

Soldiers stationed on U.S. Army Garrison Casey conduct pre-screening processes on individuals awaiting entry to the base

Defense Department Orders 60-Day Troop Travel Ban for Virus-Afflicted Countries

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Actors Damian Lewis (as Richard Winters) and Ron Livingston (as Nixon) act in a scene from HBO''s war mini-series "Band Of Brothers."

'Band of Brothers' for Logistics? Commission on Military, Civic Service Made Hollywood Stop

The U.S. military has long worked with Hollywood to shape the way military members are portrayed on-screen.

North American Aerospace Defense Command F-22s intercepted two Russian Tu-142 reconnaissance aircraft.

US, Canadian Fighters Intercept Russian Spy Planes North of Alaska

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Capt. Moises A. Navas and Gunnery Sgt. Diego D. Pongo

Pentagon Identifies 2 MARSOC Raiders Killed Hunting ISIS in Iraq

Gunnery Sgt. Diego D. Pongo of Simi Valley, California, and Capt. Moises A. Navas of Germantown, Maryland, died Sunday.

Capt. Michael O. Enriquez speaks to friends and family during a ceremony at Camp Pendleton.

Commander of Navy Corpsman Training Battalion Fired

Navy Capt. Michael Enriquez, commanding officer of Field Medical Training Battalion-West, was relieved of his post.

2 US Troops Killed in Iraq During Anti-ISIS Mission

It's the first deadly hostile incident for U.S. service members this year in the fight against ISIS in Iraq and Syria.

Virginia-Based Marine Is State's 1st Coronavirus Case

The White House has been notified.

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