referred to the result as "hajji" armour. They were also officially advised to line the floors of their Humvees with sandbags to deaden the impact of IED and land mine explosions. Some officers in Iraq were disciplined over their refusal to carry out missions in what they considered improperly-armoured vehicles. Hungarian troops were said to be covering their non-armoured Mercedes-Benz G-Class vehicles with ballistic vests on the outside. Military-supplied "up-armour" The US Army began deploying "up-armour" kits to better protect military vehicles in August 2003, two years before the Marine Corps would. Three levels of "up-armour" were implemented: Level I: fully integrated armour installed during vehicle production or retrofit (including ballistic windows) Level II: add-on armour (including ballistic windows) Level III: locally fabricated armour (interim solution, lacking ballistic windows) The process of up-armouring all vehicles was to be complete by mid-2005. As recently as February 2006, the Army was welding additional armour onto the armoured Humvee variant M1114 and five-ton MTV in Iraq. The United States Marines developed their own marine armour kit (MAK), consisting of bolt-on armour for the crew compartment, ballistic glass, suspension upgrades, and air conditioning. However, the kit was not fielded until early 2005, and even then only to certain specified units. Level I armour kits are now phasing out MAKs for MTVRs and M1114 HMMWVs. Rumsfeld questioning incident The practice of U.S. troops reinforcing their vehicles with improvised armour became well known after a U.S. soldier questioned U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld about the need to salvage armour from scrap materials on December 8, 2004, at Camp Buehring, Kuwait. The question was met with cheers from fellow troops. Wilson: "Why do we soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass to up-armour our vehicles? And why don't we have those resources readily available to us?" Rumsfeld: "It isn't a matter of money. It isn't a matter on the part of the Army of desire. It's a matter of production and capability of doing it. As you know, ah, you go to war with the army you have – not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time. You can have all the armour in the world on a tank and (still) be blown up..." Rumsfeld was paying a visit to approximately 2,300 troops on the eve of their deployment across the