The Board finds that the preponderance of evidence is against the veteran's claims for service connection for bladder, kidney, and prostate infections. The available records do not provide sufficient information to establish a direct link between these conditions and his military service.
The deciding factor: Most of the service medical records are missing due to fire, making it difficult to determine if there was an injury during service that led to these conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- bladder infections, kidney infections, prostate infections
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 22, 2005
- Citation
- 0531769
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