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I SPY: P.I.'s
life is like a movie
By GINGER MIKKELSEN
VIEW STAFF WRITER
I SPY: P.I.'s life is like a movie Frank Military
has lived the kind of life most people just see in
movies. The Las Vegas resident has owned night
clubs and hotels, written books, produced
alternative-health videos and operated his own
private investigation company. Frank Military,
Investigator and Author's intensive Private
Investigations Background is celebrated in a 1994
issue of a top Las Vegas magazine, along with the
late great attorney, Melvin Belli
Frank Military has lived the kind of life
most people just see in movies. The Las Vegas
resident has owned night clubs and hotels, written
books, produced alternative-health videos and
operated his own private investigation
company.
Military's beginnings were
rough. The New York native was a poster child for
polio and didn't learn to walk until he was 9. When
he did begin walking, he went to work delivering
bread before school and shining shoes after. When
he was a bit older, he caddied during daylight
hours and set up bowling pins by night.
At 15, Military went to stay
with his grandfather in Manhattan, N.Y.
"The school I was supposed to go
to was P.S. (I forget the number), and the stairs
were oh my ga... My grandpa looked at the stairs
and he said in broken English 'You lucky I can not
climb those stairs. If I coulda climb those stairs
you would go to school, so you go to work.' "
The young boy was taken to the
Daily Mirror, where his grandfather got him a job
as a delivery boy.
"I was making $26.92 a week and
I'll tell you how I remember that so vividly. It
used to come in a little brown envelope attached
with a paperclip."
At the end of every week, his
grandfather would shake out the envelope, give
Military the 92 cents and keep the $26.
From the delivery boy job, he
made his way up the corporate ladder to the job of
reporter's assistant. The Irish reporter he worked
for would hang out in bars looking for news tips,
while the cub reporter waited in the car listening
to the police scanner. The team worked the midtown
Broadway beat where Military investigated the
murder of a starlet whose story was later told in
the movie "The Matchbook Murder Case."
Eventually, Military decided to
return to his family on Long Island, but he didn't
know how he would find the money for the trip. The
day he was ready to leave, his grandfather
presented him with every pay envelope the youth had
ever earned. The kid had underestimated his grandpa
and he knew it.
Back on Long Island, Military
worked a variety of jobs. He got a job serving
papers for a local attorney and worked as a stand
up comic. Then he and three buddies bought a night
club and then a hotel.
That was only the first hotel
Military worked with. He's helped operate hotels in
Haiti and the Bahamas and he ran a casino in the
Dominican Republic, and a night club in
Arizona.
For awhile Military ran a talent
management office on 57th Street in New York.
"I managed a lot of acts. Dee
Clark, Barbara McNair, Alan Dell, and a lot of
people who never made it -- comedy acts and the
like. I had a guy from England -- his name was
Johnny Eager, he did 10 royal command performances
and he came to this country. He was making $65 a
weekend and I got him up to $5,000 a week. He was
29 years old, he had lung cancer and he died. He
would have been a big, big star. He would have been
like Tom Jones. He was the best."
Military took his client's death
hard. "I just totally gave up the business after
that," Military said. "I had the best and I knew it
was like once in a lifetime you wind up with
someone like that. So I concentrated on
investigative work after that."
Eventually, Military ended up in
California, a state he loved, where he started a
private investigation practice he still runs from
his Hollywood office.
When a certain television
celebrity was nabbed with his sweetheart in
Stockholm a few months back, it was Military's
agent who caught the culprit, but it was the guy's
wife who alerted the tabloids.
The investigator doesn't rely on
the Internet or e-mail to solve cases, instead he
uses classic techniques like phony telephone calls,
authorized telephone taps, and good old fashioned
surveillance. Military pulled out a set of
foot-long binoculars to demonstrate.
"You may not see me, but I can
see you. With these things no one can see me
coming," he warned.
Along the way, Military has
picked up other professions that started as
hobbies. He produced a video documentary series
titled "Staying Alive with Cancer, the Alternative
Way" The eight-part series features in-depth
interviews with non-traditional health providers
fighting cancer in clinics around the world. He
pays special attention to the cancer clinics that
have popped up all over Tijuana, Mexico. He and his
wife, JoAnn Military, compiled their findings into
a cancer fighter's book. The videos and book are
available through Military's Web site at
www.frankmilitary.com.
On a less serious note, Military
filmed a television video series called "Cooking
with the Stars," a true Las Vegas series with guest
chefs like Lance Burton, Norm Crosby and Bernie
Allen. The cooking videos aren't available here,
but they sell to customers all over in Japan.
Many of Military's clients are
celebrities, but through the nonprofit
International Society for Private Investigators, he
has picked up quite a few pro-bono cases, primarily
when kidnapping is involved. He received one of a
handful of non-military purple hearts for his
efforts searching for (and finding) kidnapped
children. So far, he's never had an unsolved
case.
Now semi-retired, Military is
working on a talk-radio show and an Internet site
at pistories.com.
Houston
Texas, in the U.S.
More
Go To
http://www.frankmilitary.com
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Cory
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