Washington D.C.’s road pavements could be put to a test of their structural resilience by the U.S. Army’s 250^th anniversary celebration parade, which will feature a procession in the nations’ capitol city of large military combat vehicles and heavy artillery weaponry, along with almost 7,000 marching soldiers. By one estimate, damage that might be done could cost millions of dollars to repair. Kamil Kaloush, the FORTA Professor of Pavement Engineering in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, part of the Fulton Schools, says damage might be only minimal, given that military tanks are built to distribute their weight across multiple wheels, which reduces the stress on the ground. But he adds that heavy, slow-moving vehicles combined with high summer temperatures might still cause some widespread damage.