The Board has determined that the veteran's claims for service connection for a right knee disability, hearing loss, and PTSD are not well grounded. The evidence does not support a finding of in-service injury or exposure to conditions that could have caused these disabilities.
The deciding factor: The veteran did not submit sufficient medical evidence linking his current disabilities to active service.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Knee Disability, Hearing Loss, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 15, 2000
- Citation
- 0015871
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- Partly granted
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