The Board has determined that the veteran's claimed neck and right shoulder disabilities are not service-connected as they were not incurred or aggravated during his period of active military service.
The deciding factor: There is no medical evidence linking the current disabilities to an incident or incidents occurring during the veteran's period of active military service.
- Claimed conditions
- Residuals of Neck Injury, Residuals of Right Shoulder Injury
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 6, 2006
- Citation
- 0606418
Veterans Law Judge
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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- Granted
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- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for residuals of a back injury, residuals of a neck injury, and hypertension. The decision was based on the lack of new and material evidence to reopen these claims.
- Denied
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- Remanded (sent back)
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