Editing Aberdeen Proving Ground (section)

==Controversies==
[[File:Chemical Warfare Service - Plants - Edgewood Arsenal and Others - Manufacturing gases at Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Chlorine and salt preparation buildings - DPLA - 1f197bba9d603abc25e77abcf44cbe2c (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Chlorine plant at the Edgewood Arsenal, 1918]]
A [[Aberdeen scandal|scandal at the APG]] surfaced in 1996. The U.S. Army brought charges against twelve [[Officer (armed forces)|commissioned]] and [[Non-commissioned officers|non-commissioned]] male officers for [[sexual assault]] of female trainees under their command.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://edition.cnn.com/US/9612/06/aberdeen.arraign/index.html |title=CNN - Three soldiers arraigned in U.S. Army sex scandal - Dec. 6, 1996 |website=CNN |access-date=May 1, 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180501183322/http://edition.cnn.com/US/9612/06/aberdeen.arraign/index.html |archive-date=May 1, 2018 }}</ref>

Following campaigning by [[PETA]], the [[Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine]] and other organizations, the U.S. military announced in 2011 that it was replacing its use of monkeys in the Army's nerve-agent attack training courses with human simulators and other non-animal teaching methods. The training drills had been carried out on [[vervet monkeys]] and conducted at Aberdeen Proving Ground.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Vastag |first1=Brian |title=Army to phase out use of animal nerve-agent testing |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/army-agrees-to-phase-out-use-of-animal-nerve-gas-testing/2011/10/13/gIQA1p1PiL_story.html |access-date=March 9, 2015 |agency=Washington Post |date=October 13, 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403121238/http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/army-agrees-to-phase-out-use-of-animal-nerve-gas-testing/2011/10/13/gIQA1p1PiL_story.html |archive-date=April 3, 2015 }}</ref>

A [[JLENS|Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System (JLENS)]] broke free from its mooring station on APG October 28, 2015. It traveled for three hours through the skies, finally crashing in a wooded area in northeastern Pennsylvania.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Judson |first=Jen |date=October 30, 2015 |title=After Blimp Broke Free and Crashed, JLENS Program Hangs by a Thread |url=https://www.defensenews.com/home/2015/10/30/after-blimp-broke-free-and-crashed-jlens-program-hangs-by-a-thread/ |access-date=February 3, 2024 |website=Defense News |language=en |archive-date=July 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240729062922/https://www.defensenews.com/home/2015/10/30/after-blimp-broke-free-and-crashed-jlens-program-hangs-by-a-thread/ |url-status=live }}</ref>