The veteran's bilateral tinnitus is related to noise exposure during his second period of service, and the Board has granted service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: Service connection was granted based on chronic bilateral tinnitus due to acoustic trauma in service, with consideration given to the benefit of the doubt doctrine.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral Tinnitus
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 4, 2000
- Citation
- 0011873
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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