Having been shot at in actual wars, I find it disrespectful and dishonest to use this term to describe some marketing experience or whatever. Unless, of course,

Having been shot at in actual wars, I find it disrespectful and dishonest to use this term to describe some marketing experience or whatever. Unless, of course, you pulled a rotting child corpse out of a canal at some point. Then I suppose you could say it was a "war story".