The Board has determined that the veteran does not have a current disability for right ear hearing loss or left knee sprain, and thus cannot establish service connection for these conditions. The increased evaluation claim for left ear hearing loss is also denied.
The deciding factor: There is no evidence of current disabilities in either the right ear or left knee to support service connection claims.
- Claimed conditions
- Hearing loss in left ear, Left knee sprain
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 12, 2001
- Citation
- 0115999
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