Here’s some of that stuff that people who’ve never been in dangerous situations claim never happens:

A female Kurdish sniper comes inches away from an Isil bullet.

Bullet almost killed her. Then she laughed about it. pic.twitter.com/3JouFK7fni

— Ashraf اشراف अशरफ🏳 (@ASJBaloch) May 26, 2019

I wasn’t in combat, but when I had bullets whizzing by my head (in an army live-fire exercise) I made a joke immediately afterwards, just as that sniper does. Incredibly common.