The Veteran's service-connected conditions, including a gunshot wound in the left buttock and associated nerve condition, make it impossible for him to secure or maintain substantially gainful employment.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities limit his ability to perform physical tasks required for most jobs, particularly those involving prolonged sitting, standing, walking, climbing, and repetitive bending.
- Claimed conditions
- gunshot wound in the left buttock, neurological involvement associated with gunshot wound in the left buttock, tinnitus, left ear hearing loss, malaria, right shoulder residual scarring due to squamous cell skin cancer
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- July 25, 2019
- Citation
- 19157835
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