Army captain learns about an outpost's strange practices, but his response to it all is something else

A very respected captain in the Foreign Legion was transferred to a remote desert outpost. On his orientation tour, he noticed a very old seedy-looking camel tied out behind the enlisted men’s barracks.

He asked the sergeant leading the tour, “Why is a camel tied to the barracks?”

“Well sir,” the sergeant replied, “it’s a long way from anywhere, and the men have natural sexual urges, so when they do … uh … we have the camel ready for them.”

“Well, I suppose if it’s good for morale, then it’s all right with me,” the captain said.

After he had been stationed at the fort for six long, lonely months, the captain simply couldn’t control his sexual angst any longer. He barked to his sergeant: “BRING THE CAMEL INTO MY TENT!”

The sergeant shrugged his shoulders, looked at the other men, and led the camel into the captain’s quarters.

Within a few minutes, the captain emerged from his tent, fastening his trousers, almost beaming with pride.

“So, sergeant, is that how the enlisted men do it?” he asked.

The sergeant replied, “Well, sir, usually they just use it to ride into town.”