What do you do when you’re deployed in Afghanistan and your squad isn’t getting any action? Hire some prostitutes? No, no that’s kinda messed up, and I don’t think your superiors would be too happy. What you could do is throw on some of your gear and try and recreate the MW2 box art, in real life. That’s what two soldiers, Travis and Chris did with some awesome results.
(from kotaku.com)
“I recently returned from a deployment to Afghanistan. It got extremely boring there, and eventually we found a fun way to spend our time. Me and a friend are big Modern Warfare 2 fans, and one day we noticed that a lot of the gear that is shown on the characters in the box art is a lot similar to ours. Infinity Ward obviously did their research. So we decided to try and reconstruct the poses and equipment in the box arts for fun.
“For the normal edition, we studied the box and made sure to replicate everything we could; we cut the fingers off a pair of gloves, wore one knee pad, found a shemagh (scarf) and etc.
“For the Hardened Edition, though, we didn’t have a copy of the game box on hand so we kinda had to wing it and try and remake it from memory. My buddy Chris suited up for the original edition and I took up the Hardened Edition spot.”
When they got back form their deployment they had a graphic designer mock up some box art featuring their pictures with awesome results (see below).
Nice work to these two fine men, not only for risking their lives and putting in the time to keep everyone at home safe, but also for providing the MW2 community with some kick ass box art. 
I was raised by a pack of alpacas just outside of Cincinnati.
DUDE THATS SICK!!!!!
I was pretty impressed it looks like it could be the actual box art for the game.