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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Alcohol, Liberty Ban for US Troops in Japan After Deadly Car Crash

U.S. Forces Japan cut off local liberty for all troops in the region and prohibited consumption of alcohol until further...

Marines and Sailors with Combat Logistics Battalion 5, Combat Logistics Regiment 1, 1st Marine Logistics Group participate in a seven mile conditioning hike on Camp Pendleton, Calif., June 27, 2017. (U.S. Marine Corps/Lance Cpl. Adam Dublinske)

Marine Dead, Another in Custody After Reported Stabbing at Pendleton

A Marine School of Infantry student is dead and another has been taken into custody.

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Miguel Rivera, with Combat Logistics Battalion 8, Combat Logistics Regiment 2, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, performs a pre-flight test on the TRV-50 quadcopter during an operations check for Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory as part of Integrated Training Exercise 3-18 on Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif., April 29, 2018. (U.S. Marine Corps photo/Scott Jenkins)

Pentagon Policy Bars Marines from Using New Infantry Quadcopters

"Quads for Squads" is on hold for now.

Navy: Failures of Leaders, Watchstanders Led to Deadly Ship Collisions

Two Navy destroyer collisions in the Pacific were preventable and resulted from multiple failures on the part of senior...

Confusion Over Steering Put USS McCain on Deadly Collision Course

It was around 5:20 a.m., still well before sunrise, as the guided-missile destroyer John S. McCain prepared to enter the...

An F/A-18E Super Hornet prepares to take off from the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson during flight operations in the western Pacific Ocean, May 1, 2017. (U.S. Navy photo/Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Matt Brown)

Pilot Who Ejected in April Hornet Mishap Was Senior Navy Officer

The pilot who was forced to ditch his F/A-18E Super Hornet after an attempted carrier landing was a seasoned Navy captain.

In this Oct. 25, 2017, photo, Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., poses for a portrait in his office on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Lawmaker Undaunted After Provision to Change Navy's Name Cut from Bill

Since 2001, Rep. Walter Jones has been trying to rename the Department of the Navy. But 2017 won't be the year.

Recruits run during a physical fitness assessment in the Freedom Hall Physical Fitness Facility at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Illinois. (U.S. Navy/Scott A. Thornbloom)

Navy Recruits Will Soon Have to Prove They Can Run Before Boot Camp

The service announced it is creating an initial fitness test for prospective sailors on their first day of boot camp.

Lt. Mark Alan Weiss. Courtesy Naval Special Warfare Command

Navy SEAL Dies During Dive Accident in Zanzibar

One of the Navy's elite special operators was killed during a reported spearfishing accident in Africa earlier this month.

Ed Collins demonstrates Chesapeake’s new nickel ammo, left, comparing it to conventional brass ammo, right. (Hope Hodge Seck/Military.com

This Ultra-Light Ammo Could Help a Machine Gunner Lose 10 Pounds

The Chesapeake Cartridge Corporation is in the process of submitting its new line of nickel ammunition for testing.

AACUS provides a material resupply for Marines assigned to Combat Logistics Battalion 8, based at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, NC at Marine Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, CA, May 14, 2018. (Matt Lyman/U.S. Marine Corps)

Marines Get Resupply from Unmanned Helo During Exercise

In a first, Marines participating in an integrated training exercise got supplies delivered via an autonomous UH-1 Huey.

DARPA awarded Phase 3 of Tern to a team led by Northrop Grumman Corp. The Tern is in competition to be the Marine Corps' new MUX mega-drone. DARPA photo illustration

Marines' Ship-Launched Mega-Drone May Not Carry Weapons After All

The final design for the MUX may not be able to carry weapons or conduct logistics and resupply missions.

Colombian Naval Infantry Lt. Col. Erick H. Del Rio, the deputy commander of Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force - Southern Command, right, shakes hands with U.S. Navy Adm. Kurt W. Tidd, the commander of U.S. Southern Command, May 16, 2018. (U.S. Marine Corps photo/Zachary Dyer)

In First, Marine Task Force Gets Colombian Deputy Commander

A specially designed Marine Corps task force for Latin America made history this month.

Combat aviation advisor students with the 6th Special Operations Squadron load onto a C-145A Skytruck during Operation Raven Claw at Hurlburt Field, Fla., April 24, 2017. (U.S. Air Force photo/Joseph Pick)

The Week Ahead in Defense: June 4, 2018

Here are five news stories and events to start your week, from the editors at Military.com.

Adm. John C. Aquilino, Pacific Fleet commander, greets Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on arrival at U.S. Pacific Command in Honolulu, Hawaii, on May 29, 2018. U.S. Navy photo via Twitter

America's Largest Combatant Command Is Getting a New Name

U.S. Pacific Command will be called U.S. Indo-Pacific Command moving forward, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said.

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