The Board found no current evidence of head, facial, right hand, or ankle disabilities and denied the Veteran's claims for service connection.
The deciding factor: There is no competent medical evidence linking any claimed conditions to service.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of head and facial injuries, residuals of right hand injury, residuals of bilateral ankle injuries
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 16, 2009
- Citation
- 0939225
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- Denied
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- Denied
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