Citation Nr: 20002260 Decision Date: 01/10/20 Archive Date: 01/09/20 DOCKET NO. 14-40 728 DATE: January 10, 2020 REMANDED Entitlement to service connection for a skin disability, including as secondary to herbicide exposure, is remanded. REASONS FOR REMAND The Veteran served on active duty from February 1963 to February 1967 and from March 1968 to December 1968. In February 2018, the Board remanded this matter for further development. For the reasons outlined below, the Board finds that remand is again needed. In addition, at the time of the prior remand, the issue of entitlement to service connection for prostate cancer, including as secondary to Agent Orange exposure, was also before the Board. After the remand, this issue was granted in a June 2019 rating decision. Accordingly, it is no longer before the Board. Entitlement to service connection for a skin disability, including as secondary to herbicide exposure, is remanded. The Board finds that remand is again warranted in this matter. Following the February 2018 Board remand, additional development was taken to determine whether the Veteran had qualifying service in the Republic of Vietnam. The RO, resolving reasonable doubt in favor of the Veteran, conceded in-country Republic of Vietnam exposure. See Rating Decision, June 2019. Given this concession, the Board finds that a VA examination is needed to address the etiology of the remaining claimed disability on appeal. Accordingly, the Board will remand this matter for a new VA examination and to obtain the needed opinion. Finally, there appear to be documents in the claim file that may not have been scanned correctly. Upon remand, the Board asks that this be addressed. The matter is REMANDED for the following action: 1. After securing any necessary consent forms from the Veteran, obtain any outstanding treatment records, to include any VA and/or private treatment records, pertaining to the issue on appeal. In addition, there appear to be documents contained in the electronic claim file that may have been scanned incorrectly. In particular, the Board notes documents at docket date November 4, 2019. Upon remand, please ensure that a complete copy of this document is included in the claim file. All efforts should be documented in the claim file. If any requested action could not be performed, or if any document requested could not be obtained, this should be noted in the claim file. 2. Upon completion of the above, schedule the Veteran for a VA examination to clarify the diagnosis of the claimed skin disability and to address the etiology of any diagnosed disability(ies). For each disability diagnosed, the examiner is asked to address whether it is at least as likely as not (i.e., a 50 percent or greater probability) that it was caused by the Veteran’s active duty service, to include the claimed exposure to herbicides. The VA examiner should be given access to the claim file. The examiner should state that a review of the claim file was completed. The examiner must provide a comprehensive report including complete rationales for all opinions and conclusions reached, citing the objective medical findings leading to the conclusions. A detailed rationale is requested for all opinions provided. 3. If upon completion of the above action the issue is denied, the case should be returned to the Board after compliance with appellate procedures. E. I. VELEZ Veterans Law Judge Board of Veterans’ Appeals Attorney for the Board K. Foster, Associate Counsel The Board’s decision in this case is binding only with respect to the instant matter decided. This decision is not precedential, and does not establish VA policies or interpretations of general applicability. 38 C.F.R. § 20.1303.