Learning to Shoot

ID: 2394 ~ Source: Bradley, Don. Remembering Elvis at Fort Hood. Waco Tribune-Herald, 28 Mar. 2013, www.wacotrib.com/waco_today_magazine/remembering-elvis-at-fort-hood/article_1d7deab2-4760-5c6f-b14c-c1ad85f93284.html.
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Learning to Shoot

Elvis’s starting pay at Fort Hood was $78.00 a month. When he achieved the rank of sergeant he earned $145.24 a month. But none of this mattered to Elvis, as he made much more off of his music, and he donated all his military pay to charity.

This file appears in: Elvis in Waco

By Anabel Burke
Elvis Presley is a name that hardly needs explanation. The king of rock-and roll stands as a cultural icon to this day, but few people know of his connection to Waco and Central Texas. In 1958, at the ripe age of twenty-two, Elvis joined the United…