The Board found that the Veteran's current left hip disability is not related to his military service and denied his claim for service connection.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence did not establish a nexus between the Veteran's current left hip disability and his military service, as there was no record of any specific injury during service and no chronic symptoms were reported until many years after separation from service.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a left hip injury
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 11, 2013
- Citation
- 1301175
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