The Board has determined that the veteran's claimed conditions, including right shoulder disability, left shoulder disability, back disability, residuals of right thumb injury including scar, and depression, were not incurred or aggravated during military service. The evidence does not support a finding of direct service connection for these conditions.
The deciding factor: There is no medical evidence linking the veteran's current disabilities to his military service, and the presumptions found at 38 C.F.R. § 3.307 and § 3.309 do not apply as the disabilities were not manifest within one year of separation from active duty.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Shoulder Disability, Left Shoulder Disability, Back Disability, Residuals of Right Thumb Injury Including Scar, Depression
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 27, 2007
- Citation
- 0712337
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