The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for defective vision, finding no evidence of an injury or disease during service and insufficient medical evidence to link current vision problems to service.
The deciding factor: There is no competent evidence indicating that the veteran exhibited chronic residuals of an eye injury or vision-related disability during service, and the preponderance of the evidence is against a finding that his current defective vision is related to service.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral defective vision
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 14, 2006
- Citation
- 0624997
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What this means for you
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