Remanded (sent back)
The appeal for service connection of diabetes mellitus is remanded. The Board needs more information about the veteran's exposure to herbicides.
The deciding factor: The VA failed to obtain pertinent service records, which is a pre-decisional duty-to-assist error.
- Claimed conditions
- diabetes mellitus
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 14, 2025
- Citation
- A25003157
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