The Board has determined that the Veteran was exposed to herbicide agents during service at Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand, which is sufficient evidence for granting service connection for the cause of his death due to metastatic prostate cancer.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the Veteran's exposure to herbicide agents during service at Nakhon Phanom was established by credible evidence and applied the benefit-of-the-doubt rule in favor of the appellant.
- Claimed conditions
- Prostate cancer
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 25, 2019
- Citation
- 19181446
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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