The Board has remanded the case for further development, including obtaining records from NARA and the U.S. Navy to verify if the veteran was exposed to ionizing radiation in service.
The deciding factor: The veteran's exposure to ionizing radiation is unclear due to lack of personnel records and ship logs.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic skin disorder
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- Gulf War
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 31, 2006
- Citation
- 0622832
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Decisions by this judge: 1,547 · Granted: 20% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
What you can do next
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