Overview
- Newly published images depict Vance carrying logs, rowing in the ocean, running on the beach, and climbing ropes alongside SEALs, with operators’ faces blurred for security.
- The session took place at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado in California, following Vance’s post on X saying the 90-minute workout left him feeling “hit by a freight train.”
- Coverage situates the display within the Trump administration’s fitness push, with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth publicly pressing for troops to be “fit, not fat.”
- Reports note Vance’s Marine Corps service from 2003 to 2007, including a 2005 Iraq deployment, as context for his participation.
- Public reaction ranged widely online, from praise for the show of endurance to derision, including one critic’s reply: “Dawg, we don’t want your workout pics.”