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.

Latest Articles

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Colonel Morgan G. Mann (Marine Corps Photo)

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Three senior Marines at a Mass. reserve unit were relieved of their posts in one fell swoop this week, officials confirmed.

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The Army is moving to double the physical standards grace period for soldiers who give birth.

U.S. Army Col. Chris McKinney speaks with soldiers in Washington, D.C.

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Adm. James Stavridis and Elliot Ackerman, authors of 2034

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While the U.S. military's fifth-generation F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jets are still rolling off the production line and...

Guard Members Who Deployed for the Inauguration Are Getting a Brand-New Award

In all, some 26,000 National Guard troops deployed to Washington, D.C., to support President Joe Biden's inauguration.

Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island uniform tailor

Marine Corps Gets Rid of Male-Only Underwear Allowance After Review

A GAO report revealed systemic inequities in out-of-pocket clothing and uniform costs for male and female service members

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