The Board found no evidence of a right foot disorder being incurred or aggravated during service, and denied the veteran's claim for service connection.
The deciding factor: There is no competent medical nexus evidence linking the current right foot disorder to military service.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Foot Disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 28, 2006
- Citation
- 0640030
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