Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for back, right shoulder, and bilateral knee disabilities to obtain outstanding service records and adequate medical opinions.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary due to pre-decisional duty to assist errors and deficiencies in the VA medical opinions provided.
- Claimed conditions
- back disability, right shoulder disability, right knee disability, left knee disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 5, 2025
- Citation
- A25096017
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