98-Year-Old Ready For Military Reserves

When the Norwegian military put Gyda Kaland on its reserves list, she was ready to serve her country - even at age 98.

“I’ll be there if they need me,” she said in Monday’s edition of the Bergens Tidene newspaper.

Kaland ended up on the military’s reserve roster because she bought a new farm tractor last year. The military maintains a list of potentially useful civilian vehicles, such as trucks and tractors, and advises owners that they and their vehicles may be summoned to active service.

Kaland’s orders said she and her tractor should report to Utne in any mobilization.

“If they can use my tractor to defend the country, they can have it,” Kaland told the newspaper. “I might not be quite as useful. I’m not quite as frisky as I used to be.”