Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for service connection for bilateral hearing loss to correct pre-decisional duty to assist errors, including verifying and delineating periods of Federal ACDUTRA and INACDUTRA, obtaining outstanding service treatment records, and obtaining an adequate medical opinion.
The deciding factor: The evidence is insufficient to determine whether the Veteran's bilateral hearing loss began during a period of ACDUTRA or is related to an injury that occurred during a period of INACDUTRA due to missing dates and inadequate medical opinions.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral hearing loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 22, 2025
- Citation
- A25091538
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