'One time Elvis was on maneuvers, and they'd gone up in the mountains and it was cold and snowing like mad. Elvis said they would do anything to stay warm. They couldn't build fires, so they would get on the tanks to stay warm.
Elvis was a Scout in the tank corps, and he drove a jeep for this master sergeant. They had this direct heating system rigged up from the motor. One day, they pulled a canvas up over themselves, and when it got warm, they got sleepy. Elvis said next thing he knew, he woke up in the hospital with carbon monoxide poisoning.
They got exhaust fumes coming up from the hole in the floorboard. Having a heater in the Jeep was against regulations. The army covered for him, though, because they didn'twant it to get out that he almost died in one of their vehicles. The story was that he was in the hospital for tonsillitis.'
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