Original pencil drawing completed at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina. Iconic pencil illustration of a typical, desert-tan, "soft-skin" HMMWV from the 82nd Airborne Division prior to later GWOT full-scale armor modifications.

Shortly after 9/11 as OEF rotations began, many units began to organically add light armored plates to their existing HMMWV fleets.  Eventually, heavier-duty applications were made.