A high-ranking Air Force officer was stripped of his third star after he was found to have created a toxic work environment by, among other things, fat-shaming a female airman, saying, “Oink! Oink! Are you eating again?”

Lt. Gen. Lee Levy was investigated by the Air Force’s Office of the Inspector General over his professional conduct at the Air Force Sustainment Center in Oklahoma.

In public, Lee was “self-confident, articulate, charismatic, passionate, likeable [and] charming,” witnesses told investigators, according to the Air Force Times.

But others said he “repeatedly, publicly and personally belittled and berated” his staff, was “abrasive” and created an environment “infused with fear and intimidation,” according to the IG report.

“I think if he was in the battlefield, he probably would’ve been shot in the back,” one unnamed witness told investigators.

“Though stated in a number of ways, this sentiment was expressed by virtually every member of Lt. Gen. Levy’s [redacted],” according to the report.

Among his boorish antics, the since-retired Levy also targeted a woman under his command who said he would “always have to somewhat make a joke at my expense” to groups of people.

Although she never had any difficulties meeting Air Force fitness standards, Levy made derogatory comments about her eating habits, claimed she was always sleeping and said she never knew what she was doing.

She told investigators that one day at lunchtime, Levy walked by and said, “Oink, oink, [redacted]. Are you really eating again?”

A witness corroborated her testimony and said Levy’s conduct was “terribly degrading and rude.”

But Levy told investigators he didn’t recall that incident, or making comments about the woman’s weight and eating habits.

When asked if he said she was “always eating,” he told investigators, “Mmm, I might have said that when I … I don’t know. I don’t know.”

He added that if he did say something like that, “it was part of good-natured give-and-take between the two of them” — and that the woman would have participated in it by making self-deprecating comments about her eating.

Levy’s attorney, Richard Stevens, told the Air Force Times that he denied making pig noises or saying anything intended to demean the female airman.

“In general, there were frequently conversations and light-hearted banter among the ‘inner circle’ staff about who was eating what, among many, many other topics every single day,” Stevens said.

But the woman told investigators she felt she was being compared to a pig, and that she didn’t feel Levy’s comments were good-natured. To the contrary, she said, they made her feel “terrible” because she is conscious about her weight.

In another instance, Levy also made a crude comment to the woman during a business trip to Washington in 2017 while traveling in a government vehicle that was going over bumps on a freeway.

An unidentified witness said Levy said something along the lines of “if you lose a few pounds, maybe the vehicle would have less strain on it.”

The IG concluded that Levy’s “comments were inappropriate, particularly given his position and the public contexts in which they were made (though even if made in private the comments would still not have been appropriate).

“They undermined [the airman’s] dignity and were not respectful of her,” the report said about Levy, who retired as a two-star major general on Nov. 1.