![]() ![]() “It’s combat and you risk your life,” Studi says. When he volunteered for service, it was due to the fact that he wanted to see how he would stack up in a war situation. There was a place called the Plain of Reeds and it was the space between Vietnam and Cambodia.”ĭuring the 12 months spent in Vietnam, Studi felt like he was a student. ![]() Roaming through the Mekong Delta, we were almost in Cambodia at times. “I spent a year moving around Vietnam from fire base to fire base,” he says. ![]() Most of them had stories to tell about Vietnam and that piqued my interest.”īy April 1968, Studi and his company were in Vietnam, near Saigon. I got interested in going to Vietnam because the company was made up of returnees who were Expiration Term of Service (ETS) or stationed somewhere else. “At that point I had about a year or so in my six-year obligation,” Studi, now 74, recalls. He served 12 months in Vietnam – and the memories are still vibrant. He was now a part of A Company of the 3rd Battalion 39th Infantry, 9th Infantry Division. Arriving back in Oklahoma, he attended summer encampments for a few years before slacking off and not going as routinely.īy 1967, he was activated into the Army and off to Fort Benning in Georgia. ![]()
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