The Board granted increased ratings for the veteran's service-connected gunshot wounds to both legs, with a rating of 30 percent for each condition.
The deciding factor: The veteran's gunshot wounds resulted in severe disability of muscle groups XI due to adherent scars and loss of muscle tissue, warranting a higher rating than initially assigned.
- Claimed conditions
- gunshot wound to the right leg, gunshot wound to the left leg with retained foreign bodies
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- June 1, 2005
- Citation
- 0514840
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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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- Denied
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