Editing Bill Stealey (section)

===US Air Force and consultancy===
Stealey had the goal of becoming a fighter pilot and eventually a general. He attended [[Pennsylvania Military College]] in the 1960s; he wore glasses but "fought his way into the program" regardless,<ref name=MeierMemoir>{{cite book |last1=Meier |first1=Sid |last2=Noonan |first2=Jennifer Lee |title=Sid Meier's memoir! a life in computer games |date=2020 |publisher=W.W. Norton & Company |location=New York |isbn=978-1324005872 |edition=First}}</ref> and was granted a waiver. This allowed him to attend the [[United States Air Force Academy]] in 1966, but unfortunately a "minor slip-up in his final days dropped him to sixth in his class and out of the running for the fighter assignments." He was however asked to work as a flight instructor after his graduation in 1970, flying the [[Cessna T-37 Tweet|T-37]].<ref name=Simbook>{{cite web |title=Introduction |url=https://www.flightsimbooks.com/f19stealthfighter/introduction.php |website=www.flightsimbooks.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Class Facts US Air Force Academy AOG & Endowment |url=https://www2.usafa.org/ClassData/Index/1970 |website=www2.usafa.org}}</ref> Stealey has stated that he was advocating for computer based flight simulators in military training as early as 1971, but faced opposition due to fears of new pilots losing flight hours.<ref name="Venture">{{cite web |url=https://venturebeat.com/business/how-microprose-returned-to-making-military-sim-games/ |title=How MicroProse returned to making military sim games |date=6 June 2020 }}</ref> He attained the rank of Captain before leaving active service and going back into education, while continuing to serve with the [[Pennsylvania Air National Guard]] over the following decade.<ref>Gamers At Work: Stories Behind the Games People Play, by Morgan Ramsay, {{ISBN|1430233516}}</ref>

Initially considering a law school, he realised that he would be better served with an MBA and so attended [[Wharton School of Business]]. He became a consultant with Cresap, McCormick & Paget, and later [[McKinsey & Company]]. He has stated that he was not very good at consultancy, as he would want to solve problems for the clients immediately and not sit and wait for them to "talk for years". He took job with [[General Instrument]] in corporate strategy. He built some novel software for the business for financial planning, and while purchasing computer hardware for the company he encountered early video games on the Atari and met [[Sid Meier]], then also employed by General Instrument.<ref name=Ramsay>{{cite book |last1=Ramsay |first1=Morgan |title=Gamers at work: stories behind the games people play |date=2012 |publisher=Apress |location=New York |isbn=9781430233510}}</ref>