A loyal reader caught AFJ in a non-word red-handedness. In military use, rostered shows up from time to time as “battle-rostered”; that is, troops listed as ready for combat or assigned to a specific mission. But many sentences, like the one above, would work perfectly well if the word were simply cut.
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