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Single Judge Application; in Hensley v. Brown 5 Vet.App. 155, 157 (1993), the Court determined that the threshold for normal hearing is from 0 to 20 decibels, and higher threshold levels reflect some degree of hearing loss. Review of the May 1974 separation examination reflects that the appellant’s right ear hearing threshold at 4000 Hertz is 25 decibels, R. at 1237, and pursuant to Hensley v. Brown, this does reveal some level of hearing loss – especially when compared to the May 1972 enlistment examination which reflects his right ear hearing threshold at 4000 Hertz to be 5 decibels, R. at 1241.;

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Single Judge Application; “The [U.S. Court of Appeals for the] Federal Circuit made it clear that the Board is not bound by [M21-1] ; Overton, 30 Vet.App. at 264 (“[T]he Board is required to discuss any relevant provisions contained in the M21-1 . . . , but because it is not bound by those provisions, it must make its own determination before it chooses to rely on an M21-l provision . . . .”); It is unclear how the Board came to this conclusion that consistent and prolonged exposure was required because that language is not found within the M21-1 provision that was provided to appellant as a reference for establishing presumptive service connection; Andrews v. McDonough, __ Vet.App. , , No. 19-0352, 2021 U.S. App. Vet. Claims LEXIS 1091, at *17-20 (June 22, 2021) (“[T]he VA ma y [not] tell a veteran how to establish a service connection for his [condition] only to move the goalposts once he has done so. This kind of goalpost-moving does not reflect an optimal mode of administrative decisionmaking.” (quoting Hudick v. Wilkie, 755 F. App’x 998, 1006-07 (Fed. Cir. 2018)));

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