The Board finds that the Veteran's left eye blindness and corneal scar are not related to any event, injury or disease in service. The current disability is attributed to refractive errors of the eye.
The deciding factor: There is no competent medical evidence linking the Veteran's current left eye blindness and corneal scar to an incident in service.
- Claimed conditions
- left eye blindness, corneal scar
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 13, 2011
- Citation
- 1138181
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