Squaddies in a quandary

Today, the Queen marked the end of the British Army's connection with Canterbury, dating back to the 1790s and the French Revolutionary Wars, as part of the budget cuts that will reduce the armed forces to 82,000.  So much was made about the loss of tradition and so on, until the news report came to their contribution "to the local economy" which made me chuckle.  What will The Works/ Bar-bars/ whatever-it-calls-itself-these-days nightclub (Canterbury's only genuine non-campus nightclub) do without such regular clientele, propping up their bars and hitting on floozies, student and local alike?  That part of Canterbury near the East train station was already run down without the withdrawal of MoD indirect funding.  As for the soldiers, will they really pull as many girls when permanently in civvies as opposed to their nights-off?  These cuts can bite deep.