The Veteran's memory loss disability is not attributable to service, including herbicide exposure. The Board finds no evidence of a current memory loss disability and the medical opinions are against this claim.
The deciding factor: There is no competent evidence showing that the Veteran has a current memory loss disability or that any such disability is related to service, including herbicide exposure.
- Claimed conditions
- Memory Loss Disability, Bilateral Hearing Loss Disability with Tinnitus, Residuals of Frostbite of the Feet, Kidney Disability
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 18, 2018
- Citation
- 1803456
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