The Board found the August 2010 rating decision granting service connection for cold injury residuals to be clearly erroneous and thus severed the service connection.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's active duty in the Merchant Marines after August 15, 1945, did not qualify him as a veteran for compensation purposes due to lack of qualifying service during that period. The correct facts were not before the RO at the time of the grant of service connection and the statutory provisions applied incorrectly.
- Claimed conditions
- Residuals of a cold injury to the left upper extremity, Residuals of a cold injury to the right upper extremity
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- October 19, 2017
- Citation
- 1746669
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