The Board has determined that the veteran does not have any service-connected eye disability, and thus denied his claim for service connection.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence did not show a superimposed disease or injury to the eyes during active service, nor current service-related vision problems.
- Claimed conditions
- impaired vision, refractive error
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 23, 2003
- Citation
- 0307743
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
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