The Board denied the veteran's request to reopen his claim of entitlement to service connection for residuals of an eye injury, claimed as defective vision, finding that no new and material evidence had been submitted.
The deciding factor: The evidence added to the record since the last final denial does not relate to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claim or raise a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of an eye injury, defective vision
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 19, 2008
- Citation
- 0839822
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