I bought about a hundred of the original 5.11 CAMS bags back around 2008ish. We issued them to guys deploying on our mobile security teams in Iraq for a little while.. we also bought about a hundred of the original 5.11 SOMS bags..
We primarily used the CAMS for keeping peoples individual kit (armor, helmets, radios, boots, mags, etc..etc..) organized and the SOMS bags for clothing and other personal gear.. They were pretty indestructable and took the abuse of not just deploying into and out of Iraq over and over again, but also the daily abuse of being thrown around in the back of the trucks and hauled all over hells half acre through everything from sand storms to summer heat to winter cold, etc..
I haven't toyed with the 3.0 version of the bags, but I cant imagine that 5.11 has made the product worse.. if anything the new ones look like they are compartmentalized a little better and are even more rugged than their predecessors..
If the CAMS is too big for you, consider the smaller brother (although still a big bag), the 126L SOMS..
https://www.511tactical.com/soms-3-...BwE&gbraid=0AAAAAD4yJCkZbC6r-rU9FMkSiPJRAA-jW
as an aside, when the 5.11 rep was showing their "new" bags back in the say, he made sure to use their "full" name rather than their acronym name...
Carry All My Shit (CAMS) bag.... and Some Of My Shit (SOMS) bag... lol..