The Board has determined that the veteran's claimed disabilities, including right eye blindness due to retinal bleeding, left hip arthritis, and lumbar spine arthritis, were not incurred or aggravated during his active service. The evidence does not support a finding of service connection for these conditions.
The deciding factor: The medical records do not show any in-service manifestations of the claimed disabilities, and there is no credible evidence linking them to service.
- Claimed conditions
- Left hip arthritis, Lumbar spine arthritis, Right eye blindness due to retinal bleeding
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 14, 2006
- Citation
- 0629110
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- Granted
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- Granted
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