The Board denied service connection for right lower leg disability, left lower leg disability, and motion sickness as there is no persuasive evidence of a current disability during or approximate to the pendency of the claims.
The deciding factor: VA treatment records did not document any diagnoses related to the claimed disabilities (right lower leg disability, left lower leg disability, and motion sickness) during the appeal period.
- Claimed conditions
- right lower leg disability, left lower leg disability, motion sickness
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 1, 2023
- Citation
- 23042228
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