The Board has remanded the case due to non-compliance with previous remand directives regarding obtaining service treatment records and service personnel records. The AOJ is required to clarify the Veteran's units of assignments and locations, or make a specific finding that the records are unavailable.
The deciding factor: Non-compliance with prior remand directives regarding obtaining service treatment records and service personnel records.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic lymphatic leukemia (CLL)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 19, 2018
- Citation
- 18112337
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Veteran's CLL is granted as service-connected due to exposure to herbicide agents during service in Vietnam.
- Denied
The Board denied the claim of service connection for cause of the Veteran’s death, finding that there was no evidence to support a causal relationship between any service-connected conditions and the Veteran's death.
- Granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran's CLL is service-connected due to exposure to chemical fumes in his ship's paint locker during active duty.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claim of entitlement to service connection for chronic lymphatic leukemia (CLL) due to additional development being required.
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