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Army Overturns Reprimands of Officers in Battle of Wanat
June 23, 2010 — -- The Army has reversed a decision to issue letters of reprimand to three officers faulted for their role in the Taliban's deadly attack in July 2008 on an exposed combat outpost in Wanat, Afghanistan, that left nine American soldiers dead and 27 wounded.
The attack remains one of the deadliest battles in the nine-year conflict in Afghanistan.
Army Gen. Charles Campbell's final investigative report into the incident "withdrew, cancelled and annulled" the administrative punishments he had decided to give the three officers in March of this year.
Letters of reprimand are seen as career-enders in the military because recipients are passed up for promotion.
Campbell originally had determined that the officers should receive the punishments for what he saw as dereliction of duty in failing to prepare adequate defenses at a base that that had been established only days prior to t