On this day, April 29, in 1997, Staff Sgt. Delmar Simpson, a drill instructor at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, was convicted of 18 counts of rape of trainees in a case that sent shock waves through the U.S. Army.

The scandal, which involved Simpson and other soldiers at the Aberdeen training base 30 miles north of Baltimore, prompted a review over whether men and women should train together.

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