The Board has remanded the case for further development to verify the Veteran's duty status in the United States Army Reserves on October 21, 1966 and to determine if he was on any type of active or inactive duty at that time.
The deciding factor: Further verification is needed to establish the Veteran's duty status during the relevant period as it may impact his service connection claims.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a forehead laceration, residuals of right ulnar nerve laceration, mental condition, claimed as problems of the brain
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 10, 2016
- Citation
- 1605160
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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.
- Granted
The Veteran's claims for service connection have been reopened due to the submission of new evidence.,Service connection is granted for hypertension, heart disability, pseudofolliculitis barbae, and residuals of a forehead laceration.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims of service connection for residuals of a forehead laceration, residuals of a right ulnar nerve laceration, and an acquired psychiatric disability due to incomplete information regarding his duty status during October 1966.
- Granted
Service connection is granted for tinnitus. Service connection is denied for lung condition, forehead laceration residuals, scrotum trauma residuals, neck pain, blurred vision, and trouble sleeping.
- 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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