The Board has determined that the Veteran does not have a respiratory/lung disability causally related to active service and therefore denied his claim for service connection.
The deciding factor: There is no competent medical evidence showing a link between the Veteran's current lung condition and his military service, despite suspicious findings on x-rays in 1953. The earliest clinical evidence of a post-service respiratory/lung disability was in 2005, approximately 50 years after separation from service.
- Claimed conditions
- respiratory/lung disability, spots on the lung
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 10, 2012
- Citation
- 1242131
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