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Sixteen U.S. service members to be disciplined for deadly AC-130 attack on hospital

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LA Times says the Pentagon will announce today the punishment meted out to sixteen service members for the deadly attack of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in northern Afghanistan on Oct. 3 last year.

AC-130H Spectre (2152189791)
By Ken Hackman (Defense Imagery) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

The highest-ranking officer to be disciplined is a two-star general but names will not be released.

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