Wednesday, The Marine Corps announced that disciplinary action was taken in the case of the two Marines who appeared in the puppy video. The video posted on YouTube showed the two men joking before one of them threw a puppy over a cliff.

According to The Associated Press, the Marine Public Affairs Office at Marine Corps Base Hawaii informed that Lance Corporal David Motari, who was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment at Kaneohe Bay, received Non-Judicial Punishment and was also “being processed for separation” from the Marine Corps.

The awful video shows how two Marines, who were on patrol in Iraq, were joking and one of them threw a black and white puppy off a rocky cliff. The sound that came from the puppy, while it was falling, was heart breaking. In the background a voice was heard saying: “That's mean. That's mean, Motari.” But, afterwards, the same man who said that was heard giggling.

So much for compassion and protection.

The 17-second video was posted on YouTube, but it was later removed “due to terms of use violation,” reported CNN.

Marine Corps Base Hawaii also said that the action from the video was not in conformity with the “high standards” they required from their Marines and it “will not be tolerated.”

No other details regarding the punishment of the two Marines were released.