Teufelhunden Tavern

09/30/2025

09/15/2025

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04/15/2025

The Attacking 🦅 Eagle and⚓️Fouled Anchor: Where Grit Meets Legacy

Before the globe, before the modern EGA, the eagle and fouled anchor stood as the original symbol of the United States Marine Corps — forged in war, built on grit.

The fouled anchor, wrapped in its own rope, has roots going back centuries in naval tradition. It symbolized the harsh, tangled reality of life at sea — chaos, friction, and constant adversity. For Marines, it came to mean even more: grit, perseverance, and never quitting, no matter the obstacles.

But the anchor wasn’t alone.

🦅 Atop it sat a fierce, attacking eagle — wings stretched, claws out, beak open. Not perched in peace — but ready for war. Designed during a time of conflict, this wasn’t just a national symbol. It was a warrior’s declaration: Marines fight for our country, and we do it with speed, strength, and resolve.

Together, they formed a legacy:
First seen during the War of 1812
Made official by 1834 when the Corps came under the Department of the Navy
Featured in uniform regs by 1859

And still visible today on the buttons of our dress uniforms — surrounded by 13 stars honoring our nation’s original colonies

For me, the fouled anchor says it all. It’s not polished. It’s not perfect. It’s tangled, tested, and tough but it never stops us from accomplishing our mission.

Semper Fi. 🇺🇸
U.S. Marine Corps US Marine Corps Historical Company U.S. Marine Corps Officer Candidates School Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps Marine Corps Base Quantico Marine Corps History Division

04/10/2025

Thank you to Maker's Mark for the newest additions to the Teufelhunden Tavern

03/22/2025

Another great PME with the Drill Instructors of Company E learnU.S. Marine Corps. Marine Corps ancestors of WWI.

01/22/2025

11/06/2024

Incredible day with VMGR-153. They not only let me do morning PT, they showed me around the entire unit and briefed me on how they are the only C-130 unit between the mainland and China. They are the men and women on the watch so we can sleep safely at night. They even honored me with my on custom flight jacket 🇺🇸💪🏻

11/02/2024

Be sure to follow my new page for my craft woodworking https://www.facebook.com/share/129JHCuXtPi/?mibextid=LQQJ4d

Welcome to Palmetto Creations – where craftsmanship meets creativity. We specialize in handcrafting one-of-a-kind butcher blocks, cutting boards, tables, and benches, all made with local hardwoods and unique

10/21/2024

John Kinsel Sr. who passed away on Saturday at the age of 107. Kinsel was one of the last of the USMC’s Navajo Code Talkers who used the Diné language to develop an unbreakable code. He enlisted in 1942 and served with the 3rd Marine Division during the Battle of Iwo Jima.

06/15/2024

On our honeymoon in 2000, we met Ken and Chante Walter on the way to our resort at Sandals Resorts St. Lucia . We spent every single hour with them for 7 days swimming, eating and laughing. We became dear friends and visited several times over the next few years. A few weeks before we met he had just signed with the Carolina Panthers. After several brutal injuries his rookie year he left the NFL and started his landscaping business the following year. He never gave up on his dream and kept training even though he was cutting grass for his neighbors full time. One afternoon a few weeks after the next season started he was cutting grass and got a call from his agent who told him to stop what he was doing and to get up to Boston as soon as possible because the New England Patriots needed a punter. The rest is history….. Today we got to reconnect again but this time with our boys getting a chance swim, eat and laugh just like we did 24 years ago.

06/10/2024

Incredible day with my best friend and soon to be business partner in Warrior Adventures Zachary Green -Warrior Enterprises LLC . He will be joinining the team once he retires from the U.S. Army early next year. The day started out with an early workout at F45 Training Hilton Head Island. A meeting with Major General Grimsley who served with Oliver in the 3rd Infantry Division. We had a meeting with Hilton Head Island-Bluffton Chamber of Commerce and finished the day up by working on an exciting project for NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Stay tuned for more adventures of the F.Y.F.H. 💪🏻🇺🇸

05/27/2024

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.