U.S. Soldiers with the 116th Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 116th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Virginia Army National Guard conduct a patrol along Interstate 95 near Fredericksburg, Va., as Hurricane Sandy approaches the area Oct. 29, 2012. The Guardsmen patrolled the highway to assist stranded motorists and support civil authorities. Sandy formed in the western Caribbean Sea and affected Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti and the Bahamas before making landfall in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States.