Denied
The Board denied all claims, including service connection for various disabilities and earlier effective dates for granted service connections.
The deciding factor: The Board found no new and relevant evidence to reopen the claim for a left knee disability and no legal basis for earlier effective dates or compensable ratings for other conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- left knee disability, hypertension, left shoulder scar, right biceps scar, bilateral hearing loss, erectile dysfunction (ED), left arm disability, pseudofolliculitis barbae (PFB), right knee disability, right shoulder disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 14, 2025
- Citation
- A25003315
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