The veteran's service-connected disabilities, including a gunshot wound to the right upper extremity with loss of humeral head and nerve damage, pleural cavity injury with scar on the left chest, and gunshot wound of the left muscle group XV, render him unable to secure or follow substantially gainful employment. The Board grants a total disability rating based on individual unemployability.
The deciding factor: The veteran's service-connected disabilities prevent him from obtaining and maintaining gainful employment due to his education level and the severity of his physical impairments.
- Claimed conditions
- gunshot wound of the right upper extremity with loss of humeral head and nerve damage, pleural cavity injury with scar on the left chest, gunshot wound of the left muscle group XV
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 90%
- Decision date
- November 28, 2000
- Citation
- 0030843
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