The Board denied service connection for bronchitis and psychiatric disorders, finding no evidence of such conditions during service or a link to service.
The deciding factor: Service medical records did not document the presence of bronchitis or psychiatric disorders. The Veteran's current diagnoses are from post-service sources and do not establish a nexus with service.
- Claimed conditions
- bronchitis, psychiatric disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 28, 2009
- Citation
- 0936854
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