The Board has denied the veteran's claim for service connection for a hip condition, finding that there is no current evidence of such a disability and thus failing to meet the first essential criterion for a grant of service connection.
The deciding factor: There is no competent medical evidence establishing a current hip disability in order to establish service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- hip
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 27, 2007
- Citation
- 0708966
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- Dismissed
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