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Definition

Direct service connection is established when VBA determines that a Veteran's or Servicemember's current disability was caused by or resulted from his military service. When all the evidence establishes that a condition was incurred in service, direct service connection can be established even if there was no documented complaint or symptoms of the condition in service.

VBA makes this kind of determination because compensation can be paid to a Veteran for disability resulting from personal injury suffered or disease contracted in line of duty in the active military, naval, or air service. The Veteran must be discharged or released under conditions other than dishonorable from the period of service in which such injury or disease was incurred.

The next term to define is secondary service connection.