The Board denied service connection for a right lower extremity disability in May 2003. The June 2003 rating decision upheld this denial, finding that the evidence did not establish a current, chronic disability involving the right lower extremity linked to the veteran's in-service treatment.
The deciding factor: The submitted evidence does not relate to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claim of service connection for a disability involving the right lower extremity and does not serve to reopen the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- right lower extremity disability
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 16, 2006
- Citation
- 0625267
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What this means for you
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