Remanded (sent back)
The appeal for service connection for the Veteran's cause of death is remanded. The Board needs more information to decide if the Veteran's death was related to his military service.
The deciding factor: The Board identified a duty-to-assist error and remanded the claim for correction and readjudication.
- Claimed conditions
- respiratory failure, obstructive pneumonia, metastatic squamous cell lung cancer
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 28, 2025
- Citation
- A25007378
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