Service connection protected:

 

CAVC UNITED STATES COURT OF VETERANS APPEALS



No. 96-196


Thomas R. Donovan, Appellant,


v.


Hershel W. Gober,

Acting Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Appellee.

 

“Service connection for any disability or death granted or continued
under title 38 U.S.C., which has been in effect for 10 or more years
will not be Previous HitseveredNext Hit except upon a showing that the original grant was
based on fraud or it is clearly shown from military records that the
person concerned did not have the requisite service or character of
discharge.

38 C.F.R. 3.957 (1996); see 38 U.S.C. 1159 (service-connection award
in effect for 10 years cannot be Previous HitseveredNext Document "except upon a showing that the
original grant of service connection was based on fraud or it is clearly
shown from military records that the person concerned did not have the
requisite service or character of discharge”