The Board found no evidence of a current foot disability and thus denied the veteran's claim for service connection.
The deciding factor: There is no competent medical evidence of a current foot disability to establish service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- foot disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 16, 2006
- Citation
- 0632209
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What this means for you
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