The Board found no evidence of a current disability related to the veteran's gunshot wound in service and denied his claim for service connection.
The deciding factor: No competent medical evidence showed that the veteran currently suffers from any disability as a result of having been shot in the left leg during service.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a gunshot wound of the left leg
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 13, 2000
- Citation
- 0006727
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