Having just spent the last few days with several Scottish Officers from the various battalions of the Royal Regiment of Scotland, I got the distinct impression that joining Wee 'Ecks putative Scottish Defence Forces would be about as popular as catching any ftal disease that you would care to name. If an independent Scotland wished to create it's own Defence Force, it would do largely from scratch and I do not think that many Scot's surrently serving in the Forces would be willing to transfer.