The Board has denied service connection for right wrist disorder, unhealed left eye injury, unhealed right eye injury, COPD, and broken jaw residuals as these conditions are not shown to be related to active duty service.
The deciding factor: Service treatment records do not show any incidents or diagnoses of the claimed conditions during active duty service. The Veteran's current conditions have been attributed to other factors such as smoking for COPD and no evidence of a right eye injury in service.
- Claimed conditions
- Right wrist degenerative arthritis, Left eye injury (unhealed), Right eye injury (unhealed), Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), Broken jaw residuals
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 18, 2018
- Citation
- 18143084
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What this means for you
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