About Us

Patrick Quinn: Owner & Designer

I'm a medically retired/disabled US Army combat veteran turned designer.  I served for a total of 22 years on active duty, in the reserves and national guard. I came up with the company name "The 11th Celt" while attending design school.  I wanted something I could possibly use as a logo as well as reflect my Irish/German heritage and, being the 11th of 12 children, the name felt like the right choice.

My one-man operation was established in 2017 and is currently located in eastern Idaho. I have been tinkering with a number of projects since I got started and my Patrol Base Lounge Jacket (PBLJ) is the first one to be put into production.  I designed and built the first prototype models and was happy to find a local manufacturer here in Idaho to put the PBLJ into production. My goal is to create a wide range of products that can be sourced and put into manufacturing here in the United States. Bringing manufacturing back home to provide jobs for hard working Americans is the driving motivation of my company.  

Company Tag line: Longevity Through Adaptability.

When I design a product, I strive to come up with something more than a single-purpose/use item. I try to make it modular or adaptable in some manner so as to expand its uses in terms of how, when and where. Designing it with more than one application grants it a longer life span of normal use over many years.

However, it occurred to me that there is a deeper connotation in that tag line. Like many veterans, a large part of my life was spent in the military, and much of what we made of ourselves was accomplished during that time. And like many of my fellow veterans, my path to pursue those goals was lost due to injury and the accrued amount of chassis damage, which ended with me being medically retired.

Unable to continue on their career path in the military, a professional warrior can lose their purpose. And for some of us, there are additional personal hardships that we have to endure along the way as well. Having such a major disruption (or two) in one’s life can set one adrift and getting back on the path requires discovering new goals.  How well we adapt to achieve success to reach those new goals is what gives us purpose. And it is those adaptive achievements that gives our new purpose the longevity required to sustain it.