The Board denied service connection for a back disability, sleep disorder, and skin disorder. The Board granted service connection for an anal fistula. Service connection was not established for PTSD with depression.
The deciding factor: There is no evidence of a current condition related to the claimed conditions that can be linked to service or any other relevant factor.
- Claimed conditions
- Anal Fistula, Back Disability, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder with Depression, Skin Disorder, Sleep Disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 15, 2006
- Citation
- 0639104
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 734 · Granted: 9% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
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