The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for a respiratory disability, including chronic pneumonia, finding no current diagnosis of such condition.
The deciding factor: There is no medical evidence showing a current respiratory disability for service connection purposes.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic pneumonia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 23, 2019
- Citation
- 19140256
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 882 · Granted: 17% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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