The Board denied DIC benefits based on service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death due to lack of evidence supporting herbicide exposure during service in Korea, and thus no service connection could be established.
The deciding factor: The probative evidence did not support the claim as there was no documented herbicide exposure during service in Korea.
- Claimed conditions
- Small cell lung cancer
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 13, 2022
- Citation
- 22051956
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