Problem with the Jet Injector Gun
During a Board meeting in June 1986, Captain Michael Stek, Jr., MC, USN, presented data and press clippings that suggested that a contaminated jet injector gun, which had been used at a private clinic in California in 1985, was responsible for causing hepatitis in sixty-four patients. The possibility was also raised that HIV infection might be transmitted by the jet gun when biological products, such as gamma globulin, were administered.

After numerous meetings, the Board recommended, in March 1988, that the jet injector gun be used only with authorized  military technical parts and that it be sterilized according to standard procedures.