Stratagem Branch made its debut in the summer of 2019 overriding a little known label fashioning camouflage covers for military helmets with cut-outs for communications headsets. The Branch's self taught sewer, Marlon Jonnaert, had just returned to California from a military rotation in Japan only to join another deploying battalion headed to Iraq. Marlon envisioned his upcoming role as member of a crisis response force and created his first Burro, a pouch sewn to another nylon compartment both to store ammunition and other essential equipment. The prototype was soon proven during his unit's pre-deployment desert warfare exercise. While on leave at his wife's Arizona home a second version was constructed. This Burro would be buckled into his body armor and used overseas. Marlon returned to the United States to a continue a cycle of product development and trials on and off duty.