The Board denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for a right leg disability and for nonservice-connected pension benefits due to insufficient evidence of 90 days of active duty service, as well as lack of service connection for any pre-existing disabilities.
The deciding factor: The Veteran served less than 90 days during his period of active duty, which is the threshold requirement for nonservice-connected pension benefits. Additionally, there was no service connection found for any disability incurred or aggravated in service.
- Claimed conditions
- right leg or knee disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 24, 2018
- Citation
- 1804600
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