The Board has determined that the submitted evidence is not new and material to reopen the claim of service connection for a right leg/knee disorder, as it does not provide a basis to establish that any current condition involving his right leg/knee was incurred or aggravated by his Vietnam-era military service.
The deciding factor: The newly-submitted evidence does not contain findings specific to the appellant's claim and does not demonstrate that any recently treated disorder of his right leg/knee represented a chronic disability caused by the right leg/knee injuries treated in service in 1968.
- Claimed conditions
- right leg/knee disorder
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 18, 2001
- Citation
- 0114032
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