The Board found that the claimed disabilities, including diabetes mellitus, back conditions, groin injury residuals, right hip disability, and schizophrenia, were not incurred in or aggravated by service, nor may they be presumed to have been incurred as a result of service exposure to ionizing radiation.
The deciding factor: There is no credible evidence of radiation exposure during service, and the claimed disabilities are not related to any events which occurred in service.
- Claimed conditions
- diabetes mellitus, back conditions (ankylosing spondylitis, degenerative changes of the thoracic spine and sacroiliitis), groin injury residuals, osteoarthritis of the right hip, right shoulder disability, schizophrenia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 24, 2009
- Citation
- 0931753
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