The veteran's claim for service connection for gunshot wound, right thigh, was reopened and granted based on new evidence.
The deciding factor: Shell fragment wound to the right thigh was incurred during combat service, as supported by affidavits from fellow service members and medical records showing retained metallic foreign bodies in the soft tissues of the right thigh.
- Claimed conditions
- gunshot wound, right thigh
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 25, 2008
- Citation
- 0813686
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