The Board has determined that the evidence received since the final October 1987 rating decision is not new and material, and thus does not reopen the claim for service connection for residuals of a right ankle strain.
The deciding factor: The additional evidence submitted by the Veteran does not relate to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the issue of entitlement to service connection for residuals of a right ankle strain and does not raise a reasonable possibility of substantiating that underlying issue.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a right ankle strain
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 15, 2011
- Citation
- 1145793
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