From Wikipedia’s article on military impostors:
“such a statement implies that the speaker was deployed to a combat zone, even if in reality they never left their home country.”

LMAO what if someone’s home country _is_ a combat zone?

I can be one, on some conference about deminig the poor ass countries (my country is a poor ass country) as slides were changing and showing different landmines and what not, I quietly said names of the mines before speaker and i missed like only one. I was in the back and quiet, so not interrupting the presenter.

Some english guy said to me, why do you know all this shit man? Are you some kind of a warfare freak? I said no, there is a minefield like 50 yards from my home, so i have to know how to recognize that shit because I don't want to die.

He was: fucking hell!

My country was a combat zone, I did leave the country for a while, I was 6 yo. Wait... does that makes me a legit one instead?

@retoor i don't like them at all, they are all horrible and should be banned from the face of the earth

but I do like fighter jets and F15 is my favourite since i was a kid. The EX version is even better at air superiority than F22 so there's that.

And I do love Ace Combat games.

No sniffing pigs, no use of them in this part of the country, if I was at the seaside I would probably have one for sniffing out truffles or whatever is the name of the underground luxury funghi.

However, I had Rottweiler that was hamster slayer. I am talking about wild hamsters that looks like Ratata from Pokémon.

That's why the sentence you quoted and cut off started with "In many contexts", because it isn't trying to reference every possible situation, just trying to mention one common situation.