Alan Moss wrote concerning Billy Budd:

>...  Red Whiskers, Dansker, and the rest -- these are the real victims
>of the savage regime:  ordinary folk who are pressed into service most
>unwillingly and unfairly, while Billy joins HMS Indomitable eagerly and
>happily.

Billy was one of three impressed men, like Red Whiskers; however, he didn't
seem to mind it.

Walter Meyer