The Board found no evidence of a low back condition during service and denied the Veteran's claim for service connection.
The deciding factor: There is no medical evidence showing a low back disability in service or any link between current disabilities and service, including combat exposure to hard landings.
- Claimed conditions
- multilevel degenerative disc disease, lower lumbosacral facet arthritis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 16, 2011
- Citation
- 1106478
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