Question on where people lived during the game time period

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The KC Metro area with a brief sojurn in the People's Republic of Lawrence, Kansas. I was a civilian then but if 9/11 was enough to get me to join the Guard as I did IRL then I would have completely lost my mind and probably ran to the nearest recruiting office the second the Army crossed the inter-German border, especially since I was neither married or a father in 1996. Hell, in real life 1997 I half-seriously researched joining the French Foreign Legion before coming to my senses. My desire for military adventure was much stronger then and has since been tempered by a healthy dose of life experience and Army bureaucratic reality!