Hancock Field, Syracuse: Old Base Housing

[cdterry]

My father worked at the dispensary. I remember riding the bus and playing football with Ricky Jones, Ricky Schaeffer, Donald and Ronald Day, Alvin Miller, Tim Case, Ricky Seahorn, Pete Canavino (sorry if I misspelled the last names), Bob Bobbitt, Bobby Jones, Larry Hill, and Terry Brown and many others. One night, on the way to the theater to see "One Hundred and One Dalmatians" I slipped on the ice, broke an incisor in half and took five stitches in my lower lip. Twenty-five years later, I finally got to see the movie. It was ok, but it was not worth busting my mouth over.

[bigmanedB]

When I came to Hancock Field, I was the first new person on the flight line. In fact not many people then knew the regular Air Force had a flight line. My name is Ed Bodensick. I didn't know a lot of people other than the few that worked with me. I was there from 1973 through 1975. I was a crew chief and worked on T-33's. It was a nice base and I really enjoyed my time there. If anyone remembers me let me know. I dated a girl named Bambi who worked at the Norad building. She had to leave to go back to Florida because her boa constrictor caught a cold. I helped put the airplane on the pole. We would play soft ball in the summer. It was a lot of fun for me.