The Board has found that the Veteran's claimed disabilities, including legal blindness, right leg drag, tropical sporadic hemiparesis, left foot drop, fracture in vertebrae and right heel spur, were not incurred or aggravated by service. The appeal is denied.
The deciding factor: There is no evidence of any current disability related to the Veteran's military service.
- Claimed conditions
- legal blindness, right leg drag, tropical sporadic hemiparesis, left foot drop, fracture in vertebrae, right heel spur
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 2, 2015
- Citation
- 1550448
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