Granted
The Board granted service connection for the veteran's bilateral hearing loss, concluding that the evidence was approximately balanced regarding whether the condition was incurred due to in-service exposure to excessive noise.
The deciding factor: The Board afforded the veteran the benefit of the doubt due to the approximate balance of evidence.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral hearing loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 21, 2025
- Citation
- A25005117
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