{"id":46123,"date":"2019-08-27T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T10:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/08\/27\/the-case-against-gen-john-hyten\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T02:24:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T02:24:40","slug":"the-case-against-gen-john-hyten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/commentary\/2019\/08\/27\/the-case-against-gen-john-hyten\/","title":{"rendered":"The case against Gen. John Hyten"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I am an active duty Army soldier who serves honorably today. I served two deployments in Afghanistan and two more in Iraq. I have also been publicly smeared for reporting I was sexually assaulted by a general officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gen. John Hyten, nominated to become vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (VCJCS)<\/a>, sexually assaulted me multiple times between January and December, 2017. During his confirmation hearing and in several articles, negative and false representations of my character and record have been raised. This is devastating to me, not only as a survivor of sexual assault, but also as an active duty soldier. I had a moral responsibility to come forward with the truth. I risked everything to ensure that Gen. Hyten cannot do this to anyone else as the VCJCS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until I was sexually assaulted by Gen. Hyten, he ranked me as the number one of 71 colonels who worked for him in the command. Only after I rejected his sexual advances did he begin efforts to discredit me and embrace the narrative that I was a \u201ctoxic leader.\u201d Not only did Gen. Hyten know about my leadership style, he encouraged it. Two internal investigations implicated Gen. Hyten in participating in and promoting my leadership style \u2014 corroborated facts he continues to deny. In fact, as the timeline for every investigation conducted on this matter makes clear, he contacted Army senior leaders praising my leadership style well after he knew about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\t