Q:Information: - Nathan Self is a native of China Spring , Texas , former U.S. Army officer and author . Self graduated from West Point in 1998 . After becoming an Infantry officer Self deployed to Kosovo and was then selected to serve in the 75th Ranger Regiment . As a platoon leader in the Rangers , he deployed to Afghanistan shortly after 9/11 as part of a Special Operations task force with a mission to kill or capture Taliban and al - Qaeda 's top leaders . Self commanded a Quick Reaction Force to rescue a missing Navy SEAL during the Battle of Takur Ghar mountain . For his actions during the battle he was awarded the Silver Star , Bronze Star and a Purple Heart and was invited to attend the 2003 State of the Union Address . Following a tour in Iraq with the 101st Airborne Division , where he wrote and directed daily operations and trained Iraqi Security Forces , Nate commanded a rifle company before leaving the Army in 2004 . - China Spring is an unincorporated community in northwestern McLennan County, Texas, United States. It lies approximately twelve miles northwest of Waco, on Farm-to-Market Road 1637, and is part of the Waco Metropolitan Statistical Area. - Texas is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population. Geographically located in the south central part of the country, Texas shares borders with the U.S. states of Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the west, and the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas to the southwest, while the Gulf of Mexico is to the southeast. - In the United States, a farm-to-market road or ranch-to-market road (sometimes farm road or ranch road for short) is a state road or county road that connects rural or agricultural areas to market towns. These are better quality roads, usually a highway, that farmers and ranchers use to transport products to market towns or distribution centers. Specifically, in the state of Texas, the terms Farm to Market Road and Ranch to Market Road indicate roadways that are part of the state's system of secondary and connecting routes, built and maintained by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). Texas established this system in 1949 to improve access to rural areas. The system consists primarily of paved, two-lane roads, though some segments are freeways, including a segment of (the Emmett F. Lowry Expressway between Interstate 45 and Texas City, Texas). Given the information above, choose from the list below the object entity that exhibits the relation 'place of birth' with the subject 'nate self'. Choices: - arkansas - central - china - emmett - leon - mclennan county - mexico - of - southeast - spring - tamaulipas - texas - waco
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waco