The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for a skin disorder due to herbicide exposure, as well as his claim for an increased rating for shell fragment wound scars and his requests for earlier effective dates for service connection for PTSD and tinnitus.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not show that the veteran had chloracne within one year of his last exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam, which is required under the herbicide presumption. The Board found no other basis for granting service connection or increased ratings.
- Claimed conditions
- Skin Disorder
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 24, 2002
- Citation
- 0205245
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