The Board denied service connection for left and right eye disorders, finding no evidence of a superimposed disease or injury creating additional disability.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found that the Veteran's refractive errors were congenital in nature and not due to any in-service injury or disease.
- Claimed conditions
- left eye astigmatism, right eye astigmatism, left eye myopia, right eye myopia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 3, 2026
- Citation
- A26018911
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