The Board is requesting additional information from the National Personnel Records Center and the Marine Corps to determine if the claimant had service between August 1980 and February 1991. The appeal will be remanded for further development.
The deciding factor: The Board needs to verify the claimant's service status as part of determining eligibility for VA benefits.
- Claimed conditions
- left foot injury, left ankle injury
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 16, 2001
- Citation
- 0101044
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
What you can do next
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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Dismissed
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- Dismissed
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- Dismissed
The appeal was dismissed due to the Veteran's death before it could be adjudicated.
- Partly granted
The Board denied service connection for a left ankle injury and remanded claims for an initial compensable disability rating for right ankle fibula fracture and an increased disability rating for the right fibula fracture associated with degenerative arthritis affecting the right knee.
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