
Elvis was first drafted and made a tank scout for the Second Medium Tank Battalion. They shipped him overseas to Bremen, Germany on October 1, 1958. Initially he stayed at the barracks at Friedberg (in Hesse), before moving off base with his father Vernon and grandmother in the nearby spa town of Bad Nauheim. Among other things he did make a little known 10-day trip to Paris while in the army and stayed at the Hotel Prince de Galles and while there, actually danced with Esther Williams at the famed Lido located on the Champs-Elysees. It was upon his return to Bad Nauheim later where he eventually met a 14 girl named Priscilla Beaulieu, soon to be his wife. Of his two total years in the Army, nearly 18 months were spent serving in Germany.