The Board has determined that new and material evidence has been submitted to reopen the claims of service connection for residuals of back, neck, shoulder, and head injuries. However, it was found that these conditions were not incurred in or aggravated by service.
The deciding factor: The preponderance of the evidence shows that the claimed injuries did not occur during active duty service.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a back injury, residuals of a neck injury, residuals of shoulder injuries, residuals of a head injury
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 10, 2001
- Citation
- 0118047
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- Denied
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- Dismissed
The veteran's appeal requests for extensions to file an appeal on various rating decisions were denied, and the attempted appeals are dismissed.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for residuals of a back injury, head injury, and neck injury as the evidence did not support that these injuries occurred during or while traveling from active duty.
- Dismissed
The appeal has been dismissed due to the Veteran's death.
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