Robert Evans

They were picked up drunk one night and made to work on a boat, you know?

This is something the Navy is going to crack down on around a little later.

But yeah, not by the time when he's a teenager.

That said, his dad is a man of influence within the boat world.

And he finds out his son's been kidnapped.

And he's able to basically like, hey, I think he needs a job.

So keep him on the boat.

But you got to promote him to midshipman.

You know, you got to give him a better gig.

So Jack gets promoted, and he actually likes his new job.

Things are going well until his boat, the Harwich, announces their next mission is going to take five years.

And again, he's pretty sure he's going to marry this girl, right?

Who is by this point, he's a little older now.

She's 15 now.

And he goes to her parents, and they're like, never come here again.

It's probably not the best pitch.

It's not a good pitch.

So John goes kind of crazy and he tries to desert from the Harwich.

He gets caught and he gets punished.

And here's Dunn describing what happens to him after he gets caught trying to go AWOL.