The veteran's claim for service connection for extreme exhaustion and tiredness was denied as these symptoms alone do not constitute a disability for which service connection can be granted.
The deciding factor: Extreme exhaustion and tiredness are considered symptoms, not disabilities, and thus cannot be granted service connection without evidence of an underlying diagnosed condition.
- Claimed conditions
- extreme exhaustion, tiredness
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 19, 2008
- Citation
- 0843848
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