The Board has denied the veteran's claims for service connection for an ear disorder, residuals of sunburn, and a back disability. The claim for PTSD is being remanded due to incomplete records.
The deciding factor: There was no evidence linking any current disabilities to service or post-service treatment.
- Claimed conditions
- ear disorder, residuals of sunburn, chronic back disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 17, 2006
- Citation
- 0607825
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,175 · Granted: 22% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the issues of whether there was clear and unmistakable error (CUE) in prior rating decisions that denied service connection for various conditions, as an SOC has not yet been issued.
- Partly granted
The Board denied a higher disability rating for the right ankle and service connection for right ear hearing loss and pulmonary lung disability. All other issues were remanded for further evaluation.
- Partly granted
The Veteran's tinnitus is related to his military service and therefore, service connection for tinnitus is granted.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remanded all claims for service connection due to inadequate examinations and pre-decisional duty to assist errors.
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