 wanted the U.S. Embassy closed in Khartoum.Carney was born in St. Joseph, Missouri and was raised and educated at military posts in the U.S. as well as abroad where his parents were stationed, including in Bad Tölz, Germany, Fort Bliss, Texas and Taipei, Taiwan.His father served in the United States Army in the early 1940s before being assigned to the Judge Advocate Generals Corps in 1948.