The Board has determined that the veteran does not currently experience any of the claimed disabilities and therefore service connection for foot disability due to cold injury, disability manifested by numbness of the hands and legs, left wrist disability, or right wrist disability is denied.
The deciding factor: There is no current evidence showing chronic residuals from the conditions alleged to have occurred during military service.
- Claimed conditions
- foot disability due to cold injury, disability manifested by numbness of the hands and legs, left wrist disability, right wrist disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 18, 2002
- Citation
- 0203581
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
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- Dismissed
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