Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for a right hip disability to schedule the Veteran for a VA examination to determine the nature and etiology of any current right hip disability.
The deciding factor: The STRs document reported pain in-service, and the similarity of the reported in-service symptomatology with those reported to his VA providers on several occasions in 2024 satisfies the McLendon criteria.
- Claimed conditions
- right hip disability, claimed as right hip pain
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 12, 2025
- Citation
- A25097870
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