The Veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for service connection for shell fragment wound of the left hip and buttock, to include muscle group XVIII, based on CUE in a December 1978 rating decision is granted.,The Veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for service connection for disc narrowing and degenerative changes, based on CUE in a December 1978 rating decision is denied.,The Veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for the grant of a 50 percent evaluation for shell fragment wound, left hip and buttocks, muscle group XVII with retained foreign body, based on CUE in a May 2008 rating decision is dismissed without prejudice.
The deciding factor:
- Claimed conditions
- shell fragment wound of the left hip and buttock, to include muscle group XVIII, disc narrowing and degenerative changes
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 14, 2015
- Citation
- 1539219
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