The Board has denied the veteran's claims for service connection for left arm, shoulder, and neck injuries as there is no evidence of a nexus between these conditions and his military service.
The deciding factor: There is no medical evidence showing that any current disabilities are related to service.
- Claimed conditions
- left arm injury residuals, left shoulder injury residuals, neck injury residuals
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 2, 2002
- Citation
- 0213427
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- Dismissed
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- Granted
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- Dismissed
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