The Board found that the appellant did not serve in Vietnam and thus is not entitled to a presumption of Agent Orange exposure. As such, service connection for diabetes mellitus type II cannot be granted based on this presumption.
The deciding factor: There was no objective evidence of in-country service in Vietnam, which is required for presumptive service connection due to Agent Orange exposure.
- Claimed conditions
- Diabetes Mellitus type II
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 26, 2006
- Citation
- 0602280
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