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Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to use a change-point at any time during the life of Elvis Presley to make his career be that of, ultimately, a general in the United States army.
I read something where Elvis ended up president and Ike was basically Elvis, which is exactly as crazy as it sounds.Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to use a change-point at any time during the life of Elvis Presley to make his career be that of, ultimately, a general in the United States army.
So he decides to sign up again, not really relishing a return to his former showbiz life, hating the adulation and sycophancy. The army is something he can trust. He's enjoyed the comradeship and the routines and despite pressures put on him he is unpersauded by their arguments. The army sees him as potentially a huge recruiting tool and allow him the time to pursue a recording career and the occasional movie. The result of this is that many of the bad contractual films he made are never made. His output is nowhere near as prodigious as it was in the 1960's but quality control is astronomically better. He also gives many concerts for his fellow servicemen overseas.
By the mid '60s he has risen through the ranks and perhaps made Captain. A combat tour in Vietnam does his reputation a lot of good, although he is anathema to many of the youth of that era. A decade later Colonel Presley is still active in the US Army and active as an extremely popular singer and occasional actor. When asked at the end of the decade if he had any regrets about his choices in life a fit and still extremely good looking Elvis said that he was glad he had remained with the Army, that he had enjoyed serving his country and did not feel that it had in any way disadvantaged him in his singing and acting career. 'As a matter of fact' he reflected, 'in some ways it might even have helped the longevity of my appeal.' 'I doubt if I could have made a really effective and lasting return to being some sort of teeny bop idol.' 'Those guys never last long.'
Elvis Presley did leave the army in the late 1980's having reached the rank of General and continues to perform at sell out concerts to this day despite being in his mid seventies. At a recent concert for allied forces in Iraq he hinted that he would be winding down his live appearances in the near future but there is little doubt that his recorded legacy will continue to live on long after he has retired from the public eye.
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