The Veteran's service-connected disabilities do not render him unable to obtain and secure substantial gainful employment.
The deciding factor: The combined effect of the Veteran’s service-connected knee disabilities does not cause total occupational impairment.
- Claimed conditions
- left knee replacement, postoperative left knee scar with chondromalacia and left knee strain
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- March 5, 2019
- Citation
- 19115758
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