The Board denied service connection and an increased rating for the veteran's learning disability and cerebral concussion residuals, finding that there was no evidence of a direct or secondary relationship to his military service.
The deciding factor: The VA examiners found it difficult to establish a link between the veteran's current learning disability and his inservice head injury due to the passage of time and lack of specific records from that period.
- Claimed conditions
- Learning disability
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 11, 2003
- Citation
- 0315524
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