Yahoo! News - Pensioner gets call-up to fight IraqPensioner gets call-up to fight Iraq
Wed Feb 26, 9:39 PM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - An 80-year-old pensioner has been called up by the Ministry of Defence for possible action in Iraq.
If he went, it would be the first time Joe Steer had seen active service since the famous World War Two battle of El Alamein in Egypt in 1942, the Sun said on Thursday.
The call-up papers came in an official government envelope and ordered Steer to report to a training camp.
"I'm a bit past my prime," the Sun quoted him as saying. "It's too high-tech today. I'm used to rifles and machine guns, not missiles."
A ministry spokesman told the paper the call-up was due to an administrative error.
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