The Board has determined that the Veteran does not have a current diagnosis of a neurologic disability involving his lower extremities, and therefore service connection for these conditions is denied.
The deciding factor: There is no evidence of any current neurologic disability linked to service or Agent Orange exposure.
- Claimed conditions
- neurologic disability of the right lower extremity, neurologic disability of the left lower extremity
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 15, 2010
- Citation
- 1042942
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