Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for an upper respiratory disability to obtain a new VA examination and medical opinion, as well as an Individual Longitudinal Exposure Record (ILER), due to incomplete evidence regarding in-service exposure and trauma.
The deciding factor: The current medical opinions are inadequate due to incomplete exposure data and failure to address the Veteran's lay statements and documented injury.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic sinusitis, sclerotic bone and mucoperiosteal thickening
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 16, 2025
- Citation
- A25089220
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