Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the appeal for a new VA examination to consider additional service treatment records that were not available during previous examinations.
The deciding factor: Additional audiograms in the Veteran's STRs indicate pure tone threshold shifts in service, which were not considered by the previous examiners.
- Claimed conditions
- tinnitus
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 7, 2025
- Citation
- A25021092
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