The Veteran's right ankle disorder is found to be as likely as not attributable to an in-service occurrence, and service connection for this condition is granted.
The deciding factor: Service connection was established based on a finding that the current right ankle disorder is more likely due to events during active duty rather than any other cause.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative Joint Disease (DJD) of the right ankle
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 16, 2019
- Citation
- 19194297
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Decisions by this judge: 2,170 · Granted: 38% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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