and all through the watch , through sending out messengers and making 1mc announcements and taking the reports of the deck watches , and ringing the bell as the skipper comes aboard slightly hammered you can tell from some party with the ambassador or someone , and the guys on liberty going ashore and the tours coming back from the wineries , and every so often you walk out on the sponson aware of the weight of the pistol and the magazines dragging at your hip , and look out over the harbor in the evening light and up into the town and the hills above it and trying to feel like you are in a foreign country and only feeling like you want to get the hell out of there .