Sergeant Chang Guoliang was a conscript in the Chinese Army. As a farm boy from Qinhai Province, he found the military life a lot better and considered making it a career. During the Sino-American War of 2117, Chang took part in the punitive raid on Los Angeles. He found the idea of armed civilians that his superiors had warned his company about to be insane but found it to be quite true. Nevertheless, the metareality armor he wore protected him from regular firearms, swatting bullets away before they got within 30 centimeters of him.