The Board has determined that the Veteran's bilateral knee disabilities are at least as likely as not related to his active duty service, granting service connection for these conditions.
The deciding factor: The evidence supports a finding that the Veteran's bilateral knee disabilities are etiologically related to his active duty service, including multiple injuries and diagnoses during service.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral knee disabilities, degenerative joint disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 2, 2019
- Citation
- 19160178
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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