---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 C.F.R. § 3.313"
title: "38"
number: "3.313"
heading: "Claims based on service in Vietnam."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/38/3.313"
---

# §3.313. Claims based on service in Vietnam.

- (a) **Service in Vietnam. Service in Vietnam—** includes service in the waters offshore, or service in other locations if the conditions of service involved duty or visitation in Vietnam.
- (b) **Service connection based on service in Vietnam.** Service in Vietnam during the Vietnam Era together with the development of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma manifested subsequent to such service is sufficient to establish service connection for that disease.

## Notes

### Amendments

[55 FR 43124, Oct. 26, 1990]

### Authority

Authority: 38 U.S.C. 501(a), unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[55 FR 43124, Oct. 26, 1990]