The Board has remanded the claims for a bilateral eye disability, left wrist disability, and sleep disorder due to incomplete information regarding service connection.
The deciding factor: Incomplete documentation of the Veteran's periods of active duty for training (ACDUTRA) and inactive duty for training (INACDUTRA) during his Army Reserve service is preventing a determination on the etiology of the disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- {"condition_name":"Bilateral Eye Disability","diagnoses":["Mild dry eye syndrome","Ocular hypertension","Nuclear sclerotic cataracts"]}, {"condition_name":"Left Wrist Disability","diagnoses":["De Quervain syndrome of the left wrist"]}, {"condition_name":"Sleep Disorder","diagnoses":["Obstructive sleep apnea"]}
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 27, 2019
- Citation
- 19189868
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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
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