The Board has denied the veteran's claims for service connection for residuals of a head and neck injuries, finding that there is no evidence to support these claims.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found no current residuals from an in-service jeep accident resulting in a head and neck injury.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a head injury, residuals of a neck injury
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 19, 2003
- Citation
- 0332214
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
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- Dismissed
The veteran's appeal requests for extensions to file an appeal on various rating decisions were denied, and the attempted appeals are dismissed.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for residuals of a back injury, head injury, and neck injury as the evidence did not support that these injuries occurred during or while traveling from active duty.
- Dismissed
The appeal has been dismissed due to the Veteran's death.
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