Sergeant 1st Class Charles Martland, from Massachusetts, has been ordered to leave the US army by November 1 and has now been refused leave to appeal.
It comes after the 33-year-old and another soldier shoved a local commander, whom he had trained, accused of raping a 12-year-old Afghan boy. He walked away with bruising.
The Afghan commander was also said to have attacked the boy's mother when she said she was going to report the attack in war-torn Kunduz Province, where the soldiers were deployed in 2011.
But Sergeant Martland was reprimanded by a senior officer for "flagrant departure from professionalism and even-tempered leadership" and axed.
Earlier this week Mr Martland, who has served as a Green Beret for 11 years, was told that his case "does not meet the criteria" for an appeal.
The US Army Human Resources Command wrote in a memo to the soldier: "Consequently your request for an appeal and continued service is disapproved.
The two soldiers shoved him to the ground and he walked away with bruises.
But after the attack the commander complained to the US Army, who reportedly halted Mr Martland's mission, put him in a temporary job and sent him home.
Meanwhile, Mr Quinn quit the military and is thought to have secured a job on Wall Street.
Sergeant Martland, who received a Bronze star for valor actions during a Taliban ambush, previously wrote in a letter to the Army that he and Mr Quinn "felt that morally we could no longer stand by and allow our ALP (Afghan Local Police) to commit atrocities".
He now has the option to appeal to the Army Board for Correction of Military Records.
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