The Board denied service connection for joint pain and a skin condition, finding no evidence of chronic disability due to an undiagnosed illness or direct service connection.
The deciding factor: There is no objective evidence showing current disabilities related to the veteran's claimed conditions that can be attributed to his military service.
- Claimed conditions
- Joint Pain, Skin Condition
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 17, 2007
- Citation
- 0701348
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- Granted
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- Remanded (sent back)
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