The Board has remanded the case due to incomplete service personnel records and missing DD 214s, which may contain information regarding the appellant's periods of active duty, ACDUTRA, and INACDUTRA service. The VA needs to verify all active duty, ACDUTRA, and INACDUTRA dates for his Army Reserve service from April 1996 to March 2004.
The deciding factor: Incomplete service personnel records and missing DD 214s are preventing the VA from verifying the appellant's periods of active duty, ACDUTRA, and INACDUTRA service in the Army Reserve.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 3, 2019
- Citation
- 19176632
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
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