Other Uses of Fort Chaffee
Fort Chaffee has been used as a set for various movies, including the movie A Soldier's Story in 1984, Biloxi Blues in 1988, and The Tuskegee Airmen in 1995.
In 1958, Elvis Presley stopped at Fort Chaffee en route to his basic training at Fort Hood, Texas. It was here that the public information officer John J. Mawn told a news conference that Presley would receive the standard "G.I. haircut" and would resemble a "peeled onion". Mawn, thereafter stationed in Germany, was the technical advisor for Presley's film G.I. Blues. Arlie Metheny, another information office, also coordinated Presley's induction at Fort Chaffee.
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