I'm from Hereford born & bred, but often feel like saying that I'm from Gloucester instead. Why? Because if you say you're from there, or mention the place, you could get all the SAS blah blah blah BS.
I've never claimed to even have been in the army, but have known quite a lot of of SAS or ex-SAS guys, my sister nearly married one, back in the late 70's, he always carried a pager device.