Honorable US Navy Vet, Boatswains Mate, bought this pack all the way back in 2006 from a website called Priorservice.com. I regret not writing a review sooner but in all fairness, when I bought this pack, writing online reviews wasn't even a thing... I was starting to attend college after the Navy and I needed a rugged pack with a padded compartment for my laptop and so.ething that would hold my books. This pack survived 2 college degrees, travels all across the US, parties, beaches, planes, tranes, busses, road trips, campouts, hikes and everything in between. This bag has gone everywhere I've gone for more than 18 years... After college I went back into the maritime industry on river tow boats and offshore commercial fishing vessels... This pack has gone on deployment after deployment, year after year... If my pack could talk and tell you the adventures it's been on it would be a living legend.
I have gotten so much utility out of this pack for the price I paid it's just unbelievable. I'm very happy with my purchase, and maybe some day soon this company will do a throwback on its original gangster Olive Drab ambidextrous sling pack.