The Board remands the claims for service connection for bilateral lower extremity peripheral neuropathy to obtain an adequate medical opinion addressing the Veteran's claimed disabilities and their potential relationship to his military service, including exposure to herbicidal agents.

The deciding factor: The June 2025 JMR found that the Board erred in failing to address a reasonably raised issue of whether the evidence demonstrated functional impairment such that the Veteran met the disability requirement in 38 U.S.C. § 1110, notwithstanding the lack of a formal diagnosis.

Claimed conditions

left lower extremity peripheral neuropathy, right lower extremity peripheral neuropathy

How they argued it

Direct service connection

Exposure basis

Agent Orange / herbicides

Rating assigned

None in this decision

Decision date

December 8, 2025

Citation

25014627

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