The veteran's total lower extremity loss of use to include bowel and bladder, status post residuals of gunshot wound to the spinal cord was not shown to have been caused or aggravated by a service-connected disease or injury.
The deciding factor: Total lower extremity loss of use to include bowel and bladder, status post residuals of gunshot wound to the spinal cord were the result of the veteran's own willful misconduct and were not incurred in the line of duty.
- Claimed conditions
- Total lower extremity loss of use to include bowel and bladder, status post residuals of gunshot wound to the spinal cord
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 13, 2008
- Citation
- 0815720
What this means for you
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