SEVEN Navy SEALs, including one involved in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, have been reprimanded for divulging classified information to the maker of a video game.
The seven received letters of reprimand and forfeited half of their pay for two months after a Navy investigation found they served as paid consultants to the designers of Medal of Honor Warfighter, a Pentagon official said on Thursday.
All are members of Seal Team Six, the secretive commando unit based in Virginia. Members of the unit conducted the operation against bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in May 2011.
Four others SEALs, all based on the west coast, are also under investigation for allegedly disclosing classified information, the official said.
"We do not tolerate deviations from the policies that govern who we are and what we do as sailors," Rear Admiral Gary Bonelli, deputy commander of the Naval Special Warfare Command, said in a statement.
"The non-judicial punishment decisions made today send a clear message throughout our force that we are and will be held to a high standard of accountability," he added.
The video game was released last month by Electronic Arts of Redwood City, California.
The company asserted in promotional materials it was "written by actual US Tier 1 Operators while deployed overseas" and that it provides "players a view into globally recognised threats ... letting them experience the action as it might have unfolded".
A Tier I Operator is a military term for a commando involved in the most sensitive operations.
The reprimands given to the seven SEALs, which were first reported by CBS News, are a step below a court martial but will likely force them out of the commando unit and possibly end their careers.
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