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Military Adviser
What is a Military Adviser?: He or she helps war-game creators achieve authenticityfrom the function of weapons to the historical accuracy of battles. "[Developers] will fire off questions to me," says Keirsey. "'Which way does the magazine rotate? Is this combat posture accurate?'" He tells the story of one artist working with him to get the mold pattern along the bottom three bricks of a building just right. "It was at that point I realized these guys are mildly crazy, in a good way," he says. "I think one of the challenges is knowing when to say when." Another challenge: finding that balance between realism and fun. "War is 98 percent boredom and two percent sheer terror," Keirsey says. "We try to capture the two percent terror part. We focus on the three to four hours of combat [real soldiers] get in an entire month."

Keirsey's typical day
When Keirsey first meets developers for brainstorming, he takes them for a 6:30 a.m. fitness run, "if for no other reason than to amuse myself," he says. "At this point, it's tabula rasathey pepper me with questions about warfare [and] what-if scenarios in a process of figuring out what to make their game about." Then Keirsey flies home to upstate New York and the regular e-mail and phone conversations begin. How's the script? How's the realism? This interchange lasts until the game's done, with Keirsey paying occasional visits to the developers.

How'd he get the gig?
After retiring from the army as a lieutenant colonel, combat vet Keirsey (he served both in Panama and Desert Shield) went to West Point to train cadets and teach history. On the side he did leadership training for executives (think: boot camp for CEOs). But just as he started worrying about injuryrelated lawsuits being filed against him, a colleague brought him on at Activision as a military adviser, and the rest is history (and historically accurate). He still likes to stay in the thick of things, though: Keirsey was in Iraq recently as a consultant on rebuilding efforts, and, in his words, "getting reacquainted with modern combat."

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Weapons
"Sometimes it helps to have the real thing on hand," Keirsey says of his gun collection.

Experience
Keirsey spent 24 years on active duty and, since retiring, has been involved in several Middle East conflicts, "so I can see what modern combat is really like," he says.

War books
Keirsey taught military history at West Point, but he's still building his knowledge base today. "This is what I do for a living," he says. U.S. soldiers in Iraq "We're in constant contact," he says of two guys overseas. "They're keeping me up-to-date on our situation."

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