Hope Hodge Seck

Hope Hodge Seck is an award-winning investigative and enterprise reporter who has been covering military issues since 2009. She is 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.

Email: hope.seck@military.com

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U.S. Marine Corps Pfc. Casey L. Klaverweiden, a rifleman with 3rd Platoon, Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division (2d MARDIV), reaches in his magazine pouch for ammunition during squad-level attack live fire training at Afghan Alley shooting range on U.S. Army Yuma Proving Grounds for Talon Exercise (TalonEx) 2-17, Yuma, A.Z., March 30, 2017. (U.S. Marine Corps photo/Tojyea G. Matally)

Marine Corps Inks Contract for New Rifle Magazine Pouches That Will Fit PMAG

The magazine pouch features a "Double Decker" design allowing Marines to carry two magazines in a single pouch.

Aviation Electronics Technician 2nd Class Slayton Saldana. (U.S. Navy photo)

Navy Identifies Sailor Lost at Sea from Carrier Lincoln

Aviation Electronics Technician 2nd Class Slayton Saldana was reported overboard July 17.

Lifelike robotic targets made by Marathon line up in formation at a military training range. Photo courtesy of Ralph Petroff/Marathon Targets

These Marines Are Becoming Crack Shots Thanks to Robot Targets that Move Like Humans

The new targets can charge, move in unexpected directions, respond when engaged and even shout in a foreign language.

The crew aboard Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf returned to their homeport in Alameda, California, following a nearly 90-day deployment, Sept. 4, 2018. (U.S. Coast Guard photo/Matthew S. Masaschi)

Coast Guard Cutter Holds Line on China During Rare Pacific Deployment

Bertholf returned July 2 from the Coast Guard's first full-length deployment to the Western Pacific in seven years.

A Marine with Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron (VMFAT) 101 perform routine maintenance on F/A-18 Hornets aboard Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Calif., March 6., 2015. (U.S. Marine Corps/ Cpl. Michael Thorn)

Marine Pilot Will Get 2nd Shot at Fighter Training After Racial Bias Investigation

A Marine captain who was dropped from the F/A-18 fighter jet training pipeline has been granted permission to try again.

Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis formally swears in the Secretary of the Army Dr. Mark Esper at the Pentagon, Washinton D.C., Jan. 5, 2018. (DoD/Navy Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Kathryn E. Holm)

Trump to Nominate Mark Esper as SecDef, Ryan McCarthy as Army Secretary

The development raises questions about who will serve as acting defense secretary when Patrick Shanahan vacates the post.

Col. Daniel Wilson, center, was fired as operations officer for II Marine Expeditionary Force in Camp Lejeune, N.C., amid allegations of child sex assault. (Military.com photo/Hope Hodge Seck)

Appeals Court Overturns Marine Colonel's Child Molestation Conviction

A Marine colonel sentenced to five and a half years for sexually abusing a six-year-old girl had his conviction overturned.

Sgt. James G. Johnston, 24, of Trumansburg, New York, and Master Sgt. Micheal B. Riley, 32, of Heilbronn, Germany, died June 25, 2019 of wounds from small arms fire in a battle with alleged Taliban enemy combatants in Afghanistan’s Uruzgan province.

Pentagon IDs 2 Soldiers Killed in Fierce Firefight in Afghanistan

The Pentagon has identified the two U.S. soldiers killed Tuesday in a fierce firefight in Afghanistan.

An F-35B Joint Strike Fighter executes a vertical landing on an amphibious ship. (Photo: Raytheon)

Navy Buys Tech that Can Land F-35s on Carriers with Pinpoint Accuracy

When the F-35C embarks on its first carrier deployment it's expected to take with it a pinpoint-accurate landing system.

The carrier George Washington has debuted a new command patch for its NWU II and III utility uniform, based on George Washington's commander-in-chief flag. (U.S. Navy)

Navy Commands Begin to Roll Out Custom Patches for Camouflage Uniforms

Commands and units have the option of wearing an embroidered shoulder patch on the Navy Working Uniform Type II and III.

Video released by U.S. Central Command shows a Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps patrol boat removing a mine from the side of a tanker attacked near the Strait of Hormuz June 13. (Screenshot via CENTCOM)

Video Shows Iranians Removing Limpet Mine from Tanker, CENTCOM Says

Limpet mines have also been used in other recent attacks attributed to Iran.

Marine Veteran Finds Common Ground with Former Enemy in New Memoir

Elliot Ackerman spoke with Military.com ahead of the June 11 release of "Places and Names."

Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Grinston, shown here as U.S. Forces Command CSM during a Jan. 9, 2019, ceremony to present the FORSCOM Eagle Award to Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 504th Military Police Battalion, has been selected as the 16th Sergeant Major of the Army, officials announced June 11, 2019. Staff Sgt. Adam Ross/Army

Decorated Artilleryman Will Be Next Sergeant Major of the Army

The selection for the 16th sergeant major of the Army is a decorated, Ranger-tabbed artilleryman.

Staff Sgt. David Bellavia. (Screenshot via DVIDs)

Fallujah Vet Will Be First Living Medal of Honor Recipient from Iraq War

Badly outnumbered, Staff Sgt. David Bellavia took on insurgents first with an M249 Squad Automatic Weapon and then a knife.

In this June 5, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump's then-Chief of Staff Reince Priebus attends an Air Traffic Control Reform Initiative event in the East Room at the White House, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Former White House Chief of Staff Is Now a Navy Ensign

It's official: The former Republican National Committee chairman and chief of staff for President Trump is in the Navy.

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The magazine pouch features a "Double Decker" design allowing Marines to carry two magazines in a single pouch.

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