Elvis Reports for Duty: 3/24/58
Even before Elvis Presley reported to the Draft Board on March 24, 1958, an anguished nation wondered what would happen to him—and his hair. "On behalf of an outraged lady constituent," TIME reported as the deadline neared, "New Jersey's Republican Senator Clifford Case demanded of Secretary of the Army Wilbur Brucker whether Dreamboat Groaner Elvis (Love Me Tender) Presley will be permitted to retain his pomaded mane and sideburns if he becomes a drafted G.I."
The answer: no special treatment for him.