USA officials said the service members received administrative punishments and no criminal charges were filed in connection with the air strike in the northern city of Kunduz.
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Only one officer was stripped of his command and ordered to leave Afghanistan.
President Barack Obama has apologized for the airstrike, which was conducted as Afghan troops tried to retake the city from the Taliban, and the military pledged an investigation.
Doctors Without Borders called the attack “relentless and brutal”.
“Niazi, 25, was a nurse at a Kunduz trauma center run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)”. The incident generated an outcry from worldwide aid groups, some of whom demanded criminal prosecution.
Gen. Joseph Votel, who is now head of U.S. Central Command but was in charge of U.S. special forces at the time of the attack on the hospital, is expected to announce the punishments Friday at the Pentagon, the Times reported. He will not release names of the 16 because some are overseas or in units that are regularly deployed.
Afghan officials claimed the hospital had been overrun by the Taliban, but no evidence of that has surfaced.
The aircraft obliterated the hospital’s main building, including an emergency room, intensive care unit and operating theater.
In the early morning hours of October 3, the airstrike on the hospital killed 14 staff members, 24 patients and four caretakers, MSF said late past year.
“This was a tragic, but avoidable accident caused primarily by human error”, Campbell in a teleconference in November, recommending disciplinary action against servicemen involved. The group “did everything right”, a USA official said in October. He suspended an officer, issued three letters of reprimand, ordered six into counseling and sent two to retraining courses.
A preliminary investigation last fall found that “fatigue and high operation tempo” had played a role after several days of intense fighting.
No one involved in the strike on the hospital last October is expected to be court-martialed, but more than a dozen Americans will receive letters of reprimand, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The medical charity declined to comment ahead of the investigation’s release, preferring to offer a reaction after the organization has had a chance to review the report.
The airstrike on a Doctors Without Borders facility in Kunduz left 42 civilians dead including staff and patients.
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The Pentagon has said it would pay compensation to the families of those killed. “I grieve with you for your loss and suffering, and humbly and respectfully ask for your forgiveness”.
