The Board has decided to remand the Veteran's service connection claims for further examination and review due to incomplete STRs and insufficient examinations in September 2015.
The deciding factor: The Board found that additional efforts should be made to ensure all available STRs are of record, including those related to the Veteran’s deployment. Additionally, new examinations were deemed necessary as the previous ones did not address certain aspects of the Veteran's claimed disabilities and exposure history.
- Claimed conditions
- headache, bilateral shoulder, bilateral elbow, bilateral wrist, low back, left knee, bilateral foot
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 27, 2019
- Citation
- 19165786
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Partly granted
The Board denied service connection for depression but granted an initial 50 percent rating for a headache disability.
- Granted
The Veteran's service-connected left knee and right shoulder disabilities, along with compensation benefits awarded under 38 USC § 1151 for a right bicep detachment during shoulder surgery, prevented him from securing or following substantially gainful employment from December 22, 2011 to December 11, 2016.
- Granted
The Board granted eligibility for attorney's fees based on past-due benefits awarded in a November 2024 rating decision for an increased initial rating of 50 percent for the service-connected headache disability.
- Dismissed
The Board dismissed the claims for earlier effective dates and higher ratings for various conditions, including left eye condition, right eye condition, hypertension, left knee, right knee, obstructive sleep apnea, and coronary artery disease (CAD), as well as denied an earlier effective date for CAD.
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