The Board has determined that the veteran does not have any residuals of a claimed injury to his ankles during service and therefore denied the claim for service connection.
The deciding factor: There is no medical evidence of ankle fractures or injuries during service, and the preponderance of the evidence is against the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of bilateral ankle injuries
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 24, 2001
- Citation
- 0114640
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