It’s not much different to the ‘treatment’ that the sheep will be familiar with from the locals though. Who’d want to eat mutton stew out there when the animal’s probably ‘used’ and slightly salty?

Actual Caption: 03/26/2011 – U.S. Soldiers assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 525th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade look at a sheep during a mission to the Shorabak district center of Kandahar province, Afghanistan, March 26, 2011. The purpose of the mission was to conduct a site survey of the Zone 3 Afghan National Police station to see what improvements are necessary. (DoD photo by Sgt. Canaan Radcliffe, U.S. Army/Released)