Most USAF Activity I've Seen Re: Ukraine In A Long Time; Chipotle -- February 13, 2022

Note: facts and opinions/comments interspersed. It may be difficult to tell the difference. This is for my benefit. If this is important to you, go to original sources. 

Break, break: it appears a USAF C-17, having taken off from a British air station some hours ago is about to land at Kiev. Link here.  Currently at 2,000', heading due south, directly east of Kiev. Interestingly, a commercial passenger plane, having originated in Hungary, is following the C-17 track, trailing back a few miles.

The C-17 took off from Brize Norton, UK:

RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire is the largest RAF Station with approximately 5,800 Service Personnel, 1,200 contractors and 300 civilian staff. 

The Station is home to the RAF's Strategic and Tactical Air Transport (AT) and Air-to-Air Refuelling (AAR) forces, as well as host to many lodger and reserve units. 

With its mixed fleet of aircraft, RAF Brize Norton provides rapid global mobility in support of UK overseas operations and exercises, as well as AAR support for fast jet aircraft both on operations and in support of UK Homeland Defence.

Later, 1:12 p.m. CT, the USAF C-17 has landed at Boryspil (Ukraine) International Airport. Likewise, that Hungarian a/c has also just landed at same airport, both within minutes of each other.

Now: another USAF C-17 headed toward Ukraine border over Poland appears to be making a 180° turn heading away from border. The C-17 is designed to airdrop 102 paratroopers and their equipment. 3,500 paratroopers / 102 per C-17 sortie = 35 sorties. The airdrops appears to have begun yesterday or the day before.

Meanwhile, Jake-One-Two, RC-135, Rivet Joint, is now returning home, over Germany, headed west, having completed several passes over the Ukraine earlier. Boryspil: eighteen miles east of Kiev; Ukraine's largest airport, serving 65% of its passenger air traffic, including all its intercontinental flights and a majority of international flights.

Now, back to regular programming.

My wife alerted me to this story, Chipotle says it can grow from its 3,000 current restaurants to 7,000.

My wife is not a fan of Chipotle and I've only visited two or three times. Last week, my wife and Olivia -- the high school granddaughter soccer player -- stopped at Chipotle's on the way home to get a post-game snack for Olivia. I told them not to bring me anything but Olivia insisted and she got me a burrito. 

For those who have not visited a Chipotle restaurant, their portions are huge. I can only eat a fourth of any one burrito at any one sitting. Today, about a week later, I'm having the third of the four portions. Re-heated, and just as good as the first day.

A chicken burrito can be had for $6.50, January, 2022, pricing. A retired couple can share one burrito and have a meal, and have some left over.

Chipotle, box score:

McDonald's, box score: