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If you want to know what an OP in Iraq is like, here's what you do: go put on some boots, longs pants, long sleeve t-shirt, some skateboarding knee pads, gloves (Mandatory in my unit, don't ask why) grab your high school football helmet, and a huge backpack. Not no first day of school backpack either, grab one of those outdoorsy heavy duty ones.

Now that you've got all that on you, go down to the nearest fitness center, like a 24 hour nautilus. Go to the weight room and throw a 45 pound weight in the backpack. No wait a minute, lets make this accurate, the machine gun I carry weighs 27.6 pounds, I carry about 400-600 rounds of 7.62, that's like say, 25 pounds (Its probably more than that), the body armor which are two ceramic plates weighs about say 10 pounds each, and you have your pistol, knife, first aid kit, camera, night vision, and whatever crap you need to carry, lets just say it all comes out to: 80 pounds. So throw in your back pack a 45 pound plate and a 35 pound plate. Don't forget water, grab a gallon of water and throw that in your backpack as well.

Ok, now that you have all that in your backpack and you have your football helmet on, go walk into the Sauna. Every good gym has a sauna. Once your in the sauna, crack open a National Geographic magazine, and rip out the centerfold of the third world country landscape that's inside every issue, and tape it to the wall of the Sauna. Now sit there, inside that sauna, with all that crap on, and stare at that centerfold photo for 8, 10 or 12 hours. Now if you really want to make this realistic, bring a jar full of mosquitoes, flies, and as many different exotic disease carrying bugs as you can find and open up that jar in the sauna and let em fly! (Note: You may want to ask the girls at the front counter first if its ok for you to do this. Their gym might have a policy against this) This is what an OP in Iraq is like.