The Board is unable to reasonably associate the Veteran's current conditions with any incident or incidents of his period of active military service. Service connection must be denied.
The deciding factor: The evidence does not support a direct link between the Veteran's current conditions and his service, including exposure to mustard gas in a gas chamber.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of back injury, chronic respiratory disorder (lung)
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 3, 2009
- Citation
- 0928808
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What this means for you
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