Read the following paragraph and answer the question. Give ONLY the answer, no other words or explanation.

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Answer: <most likely answer, as short as possible>.

Paragraph: This part of the experience was overwhelming positive for me . Coming home from Afghanistan I struggled with the glaring contrast between the comfort , ease and luxury of life here in New Zealand and the poverty , insecurity and struggle of life in Ghor . I often looked around me and wondered if people had any idea how lucky they were . I wondered if they even cared that their life of comfort was possible only because of a globally imbalanced economic system which favours the rich at the expense of the poor .

Question: Why were they in Afghanistan ?
They were deployed there for the military .
They were in Afghanistan. The paragraph does not provide information about why they were there.