Elvis's Army: Cold War GIs and the Atomic BattlefieldWhen the U. S. Army drafted Elvis Presley in 1958, it quickly set about transforming the King of Rock and Roll from a rebellious teen idol into a clean cut GI. Trading in his gold trimmed jacket for standard issue fatigues, Elvis became a model soldier in an army facing the unprecedented challenge of building a fighting force for the Atomic Age. In an era that threatened Soviet American thermonuclear annihilation, the army declared it could limit