Remanded (sent back)
The Board of Veterans' Appeals remands the claims for service connection for recurrent lumbar spine, right knee, and left knee disabilities due to unverified periods of active service and missing medical records.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary to ensure a complete record and correct pre-decisional errors that could potentially substantiate the claims.
- Claimed conditions
- recurrent lumbar spine disability, recurrent right knee disability to include arthritis, recurrent left knee disability to include arthritis
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 25, 2025
- Citation
- A25102355
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