The Board has denied the veteran's claim for service connection for hearing loss of his left ear.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not support a grant of this claim.
- Claimed conditions
- hearing loss of left ear
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 3, 2006
- Citation
- 0612855
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 195 · Granted: 24% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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