The Board found that the Veteran does not have a current diagnosis of a breathing disability and therefore denied his claim for service connection.
The deciding factor: There is no evidence of a current respiratory disability or recurrent symptoms of a respiratory disability in the record, despite the Veteran's military service in the Southwest Asia theater of operations.
- Claimed conditions
- Breathing disability
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 23, 2026
- Citation
- A26038325
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