The Board has determined that the veteran does not have current residuals of frozen feet, and therefore denied his claim for service connection.
The deciding factor: There is no objective evidence showing a chronicity of symptoms reasonably attributable to frozen feet during service for some 50 years after the veteran was separated from service.
- Claimed conditions
- cold injury of the feet
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 22, 2008
- Citation
- 0844066
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