The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for additional development of his service connection claims, including obtaining relevant medical records and providing clarifying opinions regarding the nature and etiology of his claimed conditions.
The deciding factor: Additional evidence is needed to support or refute the Veteran's claims, particularly in terms of the onset and causation of his claimed disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of frostbite, bilateral hands, residuals of frostbite, bilateral feet, left foot fungus
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 20, 2013
- Citation
- 1337976
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has granted service connection for pancreatic cancer due to the PACT Act, but remanded the issues of service connection for pancreatitis (secondary to GERD), left foot fungus (due to Gulf War environmental hazards), and diabetes mellitus type II (secondary to GERD).
- Dismissed
The Board has dismissed the Veteran's legacy appeals for service connection for left foot fungus, left foot hammertoe, and TDIU as they were inadvertently re-docketed under the legacy system. The Veteran withdrew his appeal by opting into the modernized appeals process (AMA).
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for left foot fungus, right foot fungus, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), penis fungus, groin fungus, bilateral hearing loss, tinnitus, hypertension, and ischemic heart disease (IHD) due to improper docketing of the appeal.
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