The Board has determined that there is no current disability of the knees, and thus service connection for a knee disability cannot be granted.
The deciding factor: There is no medical evidence of a current disability resulting from an in-service injury or disease.
- Claimed conditions
- knee pain
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 3, 2006
- Citation
- 0603177
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