The Board remands the claims for service connection for a neck disability and right shin splints to correct a duty to assist error in failing to obtain a VA examination and opinion.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary due to the need for a VA examination to address the Veteran's lay statements regarding his symptomatology in service and post-service, as well as to provide an assessment of whether multiple claimed disabilities might be manifestations of a single underlying pathology or interrelated symptom complex related to service in Southwest Asia.
- Claimed conditions
- neck disability, right shin splints
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- Gulf War
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 15, 2025
- Citation
- A25088927
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