The Board has determined that the appellant's claims for service connection for impaired vision, cataracts, and a sleep disorder are not well grounded. The evidence does not establish a current disability or link between any in-service disease or injury and these conditions.
The deciding factor: There is no competent medical evidence linking the appellant's cataracts or his claimed sleep disorder to any disease or injury in service.
- Claimed conditions
- Impaired Vision (Refractive Error), Cataracts, Sleep Disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 18, 2000
- Citation
- 0001402
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