The Board has determined that the Veteran's bilateral hearing loss is related to his military service, and thus grants service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: The evidence is in equipoise as to whether the Veteran's bilateral hearing loss is related to his active service, with credible testimony of noise exposure during service and medical records documenting complaints of hearing loss immediately after return from Vietnam.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral sensorineural hearing loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 18, 2010
- Citation
- 1030969
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