5th March 1960, Saturday

[Graeme]

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Elvis is officially discharged from active duty at 9.15am.
Although the official date of release was scheduled for March 23. After receiving his mustering out check of $109.54 and his formal honorable discharge (unlike his manager many years earlier), he and Colonel Parker travel by limousine, 'mysteriously vanishing', the press reports, 'from a snow-packed and fan-laden highway'.
Their destination is a Trenton, New Jersey, hotel where they are joined by Lamar Fike and Rex Mansfield. That same evening, the group takes a private railroad car to Washington, D.C.

Elvis Presley (left), being discharged from the Army with Rex Mansfield (foreground, right)