The Board found no evidence to support the veteran's claim that his current right eye disability was incurred during service, and denied the claim.
The deciding factor: The medical records did not show any in-service injury or incident related to the right eye disability, and there is no medical nexus linking the current condition to service.
- Claimed conditions
- right eye injury, residual loss of visual acuity
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 19, 2004
- Citation
- 0419344
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