The Board has decided that the nature of the Veteran's 2002 service is unclear and requires further investigation to determine her periods of active duty, active duty for training, and inactive duty for training. The case is being remanded for this purpose.
The deciding factor: The Board found it unlikely that the Veteran would have been treated by her service department if she was not on some type of duty, especially given the notation at the bottom of a March 2002 record indicating active duty (AD).
- Claimed conditions
- chronic back disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 12, 2019
- Citation
- 19192651
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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.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the issues of whether there was clear and unmistakable error (CUE) in prior rating decisions that denied service connection for various conditions, as an SOC has not yet been issued.
- Partly granted
The Board denied a higher disability rating for the right ankle and service connection for right ear hearing loss and pulmonary lung disability. All other issues were remanded for further evaluation.
- Partly granted
The Board granted the reopening of previously denied claims for service connection for a chronic back disability, left knee contusion residuals, a chronic eye disability, and a left ear hearing loss disability. The claims for a right ear hearing loss disability were denied.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for a chronic back disability, finding that the Veteran's symptoms began during his active duty and have been recurrent since then.
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