Overview
- Photos released by the vice president’s office show log carries, ocean rowing, beach runs and rope climbs at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado, with many SEAL faces blurred.
- Vance wrote on X that he completed a 90-minute PT session with SEALs and said they “took it easy” but left him feeling “hit by a freight train.”
- Fox News Digital published the images after touting an exclusive, and the pictures were subsequently carried by a range of U.S. and international outlets.
- Social-media reaction was mixed, including mockery about “cosplaying” and supportive posts praising the show of toughness.
- The moment tracks with War Secretary Pete Hegseth’s “fit, not fat” push, and Vance, a Marine Corps veteran of Iraq, later reposted an edited image of himself with the caption “Fixed it.”