Inspector General

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[The female enlisted Service member told me] … that the General
like kind of patted her on the back and then when he dropped his
hand, his hand touched her butt. By nature, I’m a very humorous
person, so I was, like, “What? [The female staff member held up
her hand and said:] Show me on this doll [her hand] where he
touched your butt,” you know, just pointed my hand like I just did,
and she started laughing. And I said, you know, “Like this?”, and I
put my hand on her back and then I just dropped my hand. She’s
like, “No.” And I was like, “Well, show me. Like, show me on
me. It’s okay.” So she put her hand on my back and then she just
kind of like lowered her hand, but still like the hand followed the
curve of your butt, and I was like, “Yeah, he definitely touched
your butt.” Like, you can’t pat someone on the back and then drop
your hand and still like cup their bottom. That’s not how your
hand naturally falls. [The second female member] was with her
when this happened and … said the same thing, like, “Yeah, I saw
it. He basically just touched her butt.”
The second female staff member told us that she witnessed MG Lewis’ hand “brush up
against” the female enlisted Service member’s “bottom” as she was standing in “our doorway.”
She explained:
[The female enlisted Service member] was standing in the
doorway, and it was with his hand. He had come up behind her
and brushed up against her. I want to say it was open palm, hmm,
it was enough to where she like was, you could see it in her face,
she had a facial expression, like of a surprised look. So at that
moment, when I saw that and after he walked away, I was like,
“Did he touch you?” And like I wanted to confirm that with her.
And she was like, “Yeah, he definitely did.” … [H]e saw her
standing in the doorway, came up as in “Hey, guys, what’s going
on?” and he brushed up against her…. [H]er rear end.
The second female staff member told us that the contact was a “one-second” touch and
that she told the first female staff member about the incident.
The female enlisted Service member gave us a different firsthand account. She told us
that the incident occurred when she was alone with MG Lewis in his office early in the morning
after she went into his office to deliver some paperwork. She stated that MG Lewis patted her on
the back and that his falling hand hit her “butt.” She said that the touch on her butt lasted “not
even a second.” She added:
I didn’t feel like violated or anything like that, it was just I thought
that it was, I mean, an honest mistake…. I would say it’s more
awkward than anything…. I took it as like it was an honest thing
that I thought -- that I believed happens to just anybody.