How it began..

May 1992

I had always knew I would enter the military, There was no question, It was somthing that was just instinct,something that lived deep in my gut. 1992 was the year that the last of the eighties were being shaken off. The US was on a high with the end of the gulf war. There would be new primary on the horizon, And there was yet to be the influx of the Internet.
This was also the year I graduated high school. Up until now the only life I ever knew was in Dallas, I had never even been on a plane, which was about to change.
I had been entered in the DEP(Delayed Entry Program) For about a year. I was guaranteed to get the school I wanted which was Medic School. I had decided on the Navy, Because well I didn't like the Army, The Air Force recruiter was nowhere to be seen, And the Marines don't have a medical division. They rely on the Navy for their medical needs. So it was kind of a package deal. (As if I could finish Marine Boot Camp!!!)
Two weeks after graduation on June 8,1992 I left home and boarded a plane for the first time, to Great Lakes, Illinois. About an hour north of Chicago.
For the next 6 months I spent there going through Basic military training and then finally to the Navy Hospital Corps school to learn the be a Hospital Corpsman.
Flash forward to a year later and I was at my first duty station. The Naval Hospital Beaufort. It was there that one late night I caught Anime week on the sci-fi channel and saw one of my first true Anime movies "Project A-ko"
It was then my love for Anime began. Just in time for me to shipped off to my next duty station, 8Th engineer support battalion in Camp Lejune North Carolina.
I was a combat medic serving with the Marine Corps. It was there that the Marines started calling me "Doc"
Not every Corpsmen are called Doc, In fact you have to be a pretty big screw up not to be called Doc.
Back then Anime was still fresh in America, the true movement hadn't really begun, Those who were in to it had to convert others. I had two friends that shared my love for Anime, One was already into it, the other needed a little work.

What's to come

Back In 92 a kid left home for the first time to serve his country in the Navy. He chose the life of a Medic, And he was good.
Durng the time in the Navy he chose to use these skill to help other in a new found hobby he had just discovered, Anime and Anime cons. 12 years later he is still luggin that medic bag around walking talking and doing what he could to help.
Some of it is funny, Some of it is fascinating, Some of it isn't even preaaty to read. Once thing's for sure, You can't make this stuff up.

This is my Blog about what I do at Anime Cons.


Pablo "Doc" Fraga