The Board denied the Veteran's claims of entitlement to service connection for a right hand disorder and a neck disorder, finding that there was no evidence showing these conditions were incurred during active service or related to any in-service disease or injury.
The deciding factor: The VA examinations did not find any direct link between the current disabilities and service, with the exception of degenerative changes in the cervical spine which are more likely than not due to aging rather than a fall during training.
- Claimed conditions
- Right hand disorder, Neck disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 9, 2010
- Citation
- 1025717
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