I have a question for everybody are the strykers deployed to Afghanistan still using cage armor I have seen a mix online of ones that do and ones that don't so I do not know which is correct

Both are right. You'll have to check out for references, mainly to decide the place and time you are going to reproduce in your model.
And to try the not so hard way of searching here in Armorama for previous threads like this one:
https://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/194616&page=1