The Board has ordered additional development to determine if the Veteran was exposed to herbicides in Vietnam and whether his type II diabetes is due to other factors than a brief stay on South Vietnamese land. The appeal will be remanded for these determinations.
The deciding factor: Additional evidence is needed to determine if the Veteran's exposure to herbicides occurred in Vietnam, which could affect service connection for peripheral neuropathy. Further development is also required to assess whether his type II diabetes was caused by other factors than a brief stay on South Vietnamese land.
- Claimed conditions
- lower extremity peripheral neuropathy, type II diabetes
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 13, 2015
- Citation
- 1520568
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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.
- Dismissed
The Board has dismissed the appeals for left hip arthritis, right hip arthritis, type II diabetes, right lower extremity neuropathy, left lower extremity neuropathy, and sleep apnea as they have become service-connected in other rating decisions.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeal for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities (TDIU) is dismissed because the underlying evaluation of his service-connected conditions was not appealed, and jurisdiction over TDIU claims requires an underlying claim for increased compensation or service connection.
- Dismissed
Your appeal has been dismissed due to the Veteran's death. The Board cannot issue a decision on your claims as they are no longer pending.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has determined that the Veteran does not have a current diagnosis of lower extremity peripheral neuropathy, and therefore service connection for this condition is denied. The remaining issues on appeal are remanded due to pre-decisional duty to assist errors.
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