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Cpl. Aaron Maclennan sits at the front of one bus leaving CFB Shilo on Friday, Dec. 13. About 175 soldiers deployed from the base near Brandon on a bus ride to Winnipeg, where they will then fly to Latvia as part of Operation Reassurance. It is a six month deployment, in which they are set to receive care packages with items such as letters from home that are called "morale mail." (Connor McDowell/Brandon Sun)