The Board has determined that the appellant's character of discharge for his period of service from December 7, 1950, to November 3, 1953, is a bar to VA benefits due to an undesirable discharge prior to completion of his obligated term.
The deciding factor: The newly received evidence does not reflect a change in the appellant's character of discharge and thus does not raise a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 29, 2010
- Citation
- 1028306
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What this means for you
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