The Board has determined that the veteran's left and right knee disabilities were not incurred in or aggravated by active service.
The deciding factor: There is no competent evidence linking the current bilateral knee conditions to any incident of service, including physical activity aboard naval ships.
- Claimed conditions
- left knee conditions, right knee conditions
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 16, 2006
- Citation
- 0632201
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,592 · Granted: 19% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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