Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the issues of service connection for a right shoulder disability, spondylosis lumbar spine, and an acquired psychiatric disability to correct duty to assist errors.
The deciding factor: Remand is required due to missing National Guard records and inadequate medical opinions regarding causation and aggravation by service-connected disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- right shoulder disability, spondylosis lumbar spine, acquired psychiatric disability, to include anxiety and major depressive disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 1, 2025
- Citation
- A25102805
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