Partly granted
The Board denied service connection for several disorders, granted service connection for tinnitus, and remanded additional claims for further development.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not support a finding of current disability or nexus to service for the majority of the claims, but there was sufficient evidence to grant service connection for tinnitus due to in-service noise exposure.
- Claimed conditions
- right hand/finger disorder, left hand/finger disorder, right wrist disorder, left wrist disorder, scars, bilateral hearing loss, tinnitus, right knee disorder, left knee disorder, right ankle disorder, left ankle disorder, acquired psychiatric disorder (claimed as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and persistent depressive disorder)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 17, 2025
- Citation
- A25108899
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