The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for additional development to verify his service and obtain relevant medical records.
The deciding factor: Additional evidence is needed to substantiate the Veteran's claims, including verification of his service and treatment records.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of right foot and ankle injury, adult acquired flat foot deformity of left foot
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- March 23, 2015
- Citation
- 1512158
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What this means for you
A remand sends an issue back for more development, often a new examination or missing records. It does not award the benefit or decide the final outcome. The original decision explains the additional work ordered.
What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Dismissed
The Board has dismissed the appeals for service connection of left foot condition and residuals of right foot and ankle injury due to the Veteran's death.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for hypertension and residuals of a right foot/ankle injury due to inadequate opinions in prior VA examinations. The Veteran is requested to provide any additional medical records, including MRI results from a private physician. An addendum opinion must be obtained by a VA examiner regarding the onset and etiology of his hypertension and right ankle/foot disability.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board has determined that the veteran does not have a right foot and ankle disorder related to service, and therefore denied his claim for service connection.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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