The Veteran does not have a current diagnosis of right foot stress fracture or residuals, and the Board finds that his service connection claim for these conditions is denied.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found no current evidence of a right foot stress fracture or its residuals in the Veteran's medical records.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Foot Stress Fracture, Right Foot Stress Fracture Residuals
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 10, 2017
- Citation
- 1715683
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