The Board has granted service connection for bilateral hearing loss disability and bilateral tinnitus, finding that both conditions originated during active service.
The deciding factor: Service connection was established based on the veteran's in-service noise exposure and subsequent development of hearing loss and tinnitus.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral hearing loss disability, bilateral tinnitus
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 19, 2004
- Citation
- 0419328
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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- Denied
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- Partly granted
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