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

Fungal biology research team look at fungal agar plate.

The US Military Just Sent Its First Biological Experiment to Space

The vials containing Aspergillus Niger were prepared for space by the Naval Research Laboratory.

7 Ways Service Members Could Get Extra Cash in the New Defense Budget

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Landing Craft Mechanized (LCM) 8, assigned to 36 Water Transport Troop, 10 Force Support Battalion, Australian Army, conducts amphibious operations with the forward-deployed amphibious dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48) in support of Operation Croc Response.

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Some Marines Will Have to Wait Longer to Pick up Rank

A new change to Marine Corps policy will require some Marines to wait longer before they are eligible for promotion.

paratroopers airborne operation in Deadhorse, Alaska

As Arctic Tensions Heat Up, DARPA Wants to Control Ice Formation Like Princess Elsa

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A gold U.S. Air Force F-16A Falcon from the Iowa Air National Guard.

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The bow of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star as it breaks ice in Antarctica.

Why the Military Has an Office Dedicated to Tracking the World’s Biggest Blocks of Ice

The National Ice Center is the only entity that monitors ice movement and formation across the globe.

The Army Is Pushing the Limits of Bridging Ops as Ukraine’s Fight Spotlights River Crossings

Russia suffered an embarrassing public setback in Ukraine’s Donbas region in May when its soldiers attempted to cross the...

Artist’s rendering of the Navy's HELIOS shipboard laser weapon. (Image courtesy of Lockheed Martin)

Navy Still Pouring Millions into Shipboard Laser Weapon Development

The Navy's fiscal 2023 budget request calls for over $103 million to support a half-dozen laser weapon concepts, according to...

Thomas Webster at a barricade line at on the west front of the U.S. Capitol

Marines, Infantry Most Highly Represented Among Veterans Arrested After Capitol Riot

More than 40% of the 32 veterans arrested after the Capitol riot are affiliated with the Marines.

Marine Who Witnessed Iwo Jima Flag-Raising Dies Before Battle's 76th Anniversary

Elwood Hughes was also known in his community as a longtime high school basketball coach and physical education teacher.

U.S. Army soldier lets a group of Afghan girls play with her ponytail.

Army to Allow Long Ponytails in All Uniforms, Top Enlisted Leader Says

Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael Grinston did not say when the change would be made official, and added that the precise rule...

Michelle Black places a rose on her husband's casket in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery.

Four Years After Her Husband's Death in Niger, a Gold Star Wife Tells His Story

Her memoir-investigation hybrid book was pieced together from interviews with the surviving soldiers.

U.S. Marine receives final instructions prior to assaulting an objective during training

After Outcry from Female Vets in Congress, Pentagon Revives Committee on Women in Service

Committee supporters have pointed to DACOWITS' track record as a reason to keep the group.

Court Upholds Bowe Bergdahl's Sentence Despite Trump 'Dirty Traitor' Comments

"This case is unique in modern American military jurisprudence. Let us hope that we shall not see its like again."

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