The Board found that the Veteran did not serve in Vietnam and thus, service connection for diabetes mellitus, type II, on a presumptive basis is not warranted. The Veteran's claims of secondary service connection were also denied as there was no evidence to support such a claim.
The deciding factor: The Veteran served outside of Vietnam and there is no evidence of herbicide exposure or any other link between his conditions and service.
- Claimed conditions
- {"conditionName":"diabetes mellitus, type II"}, {"conditionName":"hypertensive vascular disease"}
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 24, 2010
- Citation
- 1031780
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What this means for you
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