The veteran's claim for service connection for cold injury residuals and fungus infection is being remanded due to the unavailability of his service medical records. The RO must attempt to obtain these records, provide a VA examination, and then readjudicate the claims.
The deciding factor: Service medical records are unavailable, requiring further investigation and evaluation by VA.
- Claimed conditions
- cold injury residuals, feet, cold injury residuals, hands, cold injury residuals, lower body, fungus infection
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 30, 2007
- Citation
- 0709365
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
What you can do next
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