A U.S. Soldier, foreground, waits as Coast Guardsmen, assigned to the Pacific Strike Force, and officials from the Environmental Protection Agency walk near the shoreline during a humanitarian aid mission in Pago Pago, American Samoa, Oct. 1, 2009. An 8.1 magnitude earthquake struck in the South Pacific Sept. 29, 2009, generating a tsunami that caused 189 deaths and widespread structural damage.