Denied
The Board denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss as it is not shown to be causally or etiologically related to any disease, injury, or incident during service and did not manifest to a compensable degree within one year of separation from active duty.
The deciding factor: The January 2024 VA examiner's opinion found no evidence of actual auditory trauma noted in the record as a significant permanent threshold shift, and the Veteran's hearing was normal at the time of enlistment and separation without a significant positive threshold shift noted in either ear.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral hearing loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 16, 2025
- Citation
- A25089054
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