The Board found that the veteran's claim of entitlement to service connection for a right hand injury was not well-grounded and denied it.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not establish an in-service injury or link between current disability and service, nor were there any applicable presumptions.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Hand Injury
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 31, 2000
- Citation
- 0002396
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- Granted
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