The Board granted service connection for bilateral leg disability, finding a relationship to the Veteran's active military service during the Gulf War Era.
The deciding factor: The private medical opinion supported the claim by attributing the current condition to the fall during Operation Desert Storm in 1991.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral lumbar radiculopathy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- Gulf War
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- January 29, 2024
- Citation
- 24004267
What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
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