The Board denied service connection for a bilateral vision disability and peripheral neuropathy, finding no evidence of in-service injury or disease related to these conditions.
The deciding factor: The Veteran did not have a current disability for the claimed conditions and there was insufficient evidence linking any disabilities to his active service.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral vision disability, peripheral neuropathy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 21, 2019
- Citation
- 19120711
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