Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for further development and to ensure compliance with VA's duty to assist.
The deciding factor: The Board finds pre-decisional duty to assist errors in the current record, necessitating a remand for additional evidence and examinations.
- Claimed conditions
- respiratory disability, claimed as airways disease to include diffuse bronchial wall thickening, left knee disability, left hip disability, right hip disability, right knee status post anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, chronic sinusitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 30, 2025
- Citation
- A25094636
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