The Board has determined that the Veteran does not have a current musculoskeletal disorder manifested by chest pain, and thus service connection cannot be granted.
The deciding factor: There is no evidence of a current disability during the pendency of the claim or prior to its filing.
- Claimed conditions
- musculoskeletal chest pain
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 28, 2017
- Citation
- 1724564
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- Denied
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