Inspector General

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gym shorts. She told us the incidents made her uncomfortable and concerned for her
professional reputation because people could get the wrong impression seeing her coming out of
MG Lewis’ room, and him shirtless and wearing only gym shorts.
The female enlisted Service member described her concerns:
So when I left, I purposefully pushed the door all the way open
because [the officer witness] was in the hallway … I didn’t want
someone else to see, you know, the General just in shorts and me
leaving his room and then, like, “Oh, what’s going on….” So I
was like, “No, no, no.” Like someone else needs to make sure –
like they see me exit on my own terms. Like, I didn’t want anyone
to talk.
The female enlisted Service member stated that upon exiting MG Lewis’ room, she
locked eyes with the officer in the hallway who witnessed both of her encounters with MG Lewis
in his state of undress, “so there wasn’t any confusion” about what happened in his [MG Lewis’]
room because “he saw what I saw.”
The officer who witnessed both incidents told us that after this second encounter with
MG Lewis in a state of undress, the female enlisted Service member departed his doorway with a
look on her face that the officer described as looking like: “I didn’t want to see that.” The officer
added that “it was uncomfortable to her, obviously.”
The officer told us he felt bad that the female enlisted Service member “kind of walked
into that [situation].” He added that MG Lewis’ conduct did not meet his expectations under the
circumstances. The officer stated:
I'm just saying my expectation when she said who she was [at
MG Lewis’ door], that was the opportunity to, you know,
appropriately you know, make sure, “Hey, give me a second, I
mean, you know, putting on clothes,” something. I was kind of
expecting that. But that unfortunately wasn't the case.
The officer told us that he spoke to the female enlisted Service member later about the
incident. He said that he told her, “Hey, look, [I] apologize. That is why I told you to make sure
you say who it was and knock and I didn’t expect that to happen.” According to the officer, the
female enlisted Service member replied to him, “I’m okay … I’m a Soldier.”
The officer told us that after witnessing these two encounters, he took action to ensure
that the female enlisted Service member was not put in similar situations. He told us he “was
just more vigilant in regards to…putting her in places where that type of thing could happen
again, or just in general … make sure she had a buddy.” According to another officer in the
Secretary of Defense travel delegation, the female enlisted Service member later told him about
the encounters with MG Lewis in a state of undress and that she “did not feel comfortable” about
them. This officer told us he took action to protect both parties, the female enlisted Service
member and MG Lewis since “he’s my boss, too, I protect him, as well.” He wanted to make
sure the female enlisted Service member was never in that situation again. He told us, “so if