The Board finds that the Veteran's bilateral knee conditions are not related to service and were not caused or aggravated by a service-connected disability.
The deciding factor: VA treatment records do not show any complaints of knee pain until over 3 decades after separation from service, and there is no evidence linking current knee conditions to service.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral Knee Conditions
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 19, 2011
- Citation
- 1126950
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