The Board has granted service connection for dizziness and memory loss as due to an undiagnosed illness during the Gulf War.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence supports attributing the veteran's symptoms of dizziness and memory loss to an undiagnosed illness, consistent with his service in the Southwest Asia theater of operations.
- Claimed conditions
- dizziness, memory loss
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 19, 2004
- Citation
- 0404766
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