# Presley is inducted into the US Army on 24 March 1958 and serves through 5 March 1960

Date: 1958

## The fact

On 24 March 1958 [Presley](/people/elvis-presley) was inducted into the United States Army and served until 5 March 1960, including a German posting.

It is one event.

## Context

Service can be civic staffing and can be a brand. Split G.I. Blues as mill.

Elvis Presley’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Induction at Memphis (24 March 1958), training, and Friedberg, Germany, through honourable discharge 5 March 1960 are the public military file. Parker publicised it; the Army processed it. He did not skip the draft by a unique legal carve-out in the public record used here.
Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers date the row.

## Evidence and sources

Army public-history practice and Britannica independently date the 1958–60 service including Germany.

Official or archival record: United States Army (https://www.army.mil/; United States Army).

## Significance

A famous draftee serving the hitch is a civic-staffing path, not a welfare rebate to later Vegas.

Germany 1958 is not a 1960s missing world tour.

A famous draftee serving the hitch is a civic-staffing path, not a welfare rebate to later Vegas.

## What is established and what is not

Established: induction 24 March 1958; discharge 5 March 1960. Not established: that he held a combat command.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Elvis Presley.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date, signatory, or non-occurrence; a demonstrated forgery; or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of other causes.

They are not a public rating.

## People

- Elvis Presley: https://factrail.ai/people/elvis-presley

## Drivers

- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience

## Sources

- https://www.army.mil/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elvis-Presley

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/elv-army-1958