The veteran's claim for basic eligibility to educational assistance benefits under Chapter 30, Title 38, United States Code is denied due to lack of qualifying service.
The deciding factor: The veteran did not serve on active duty continuously for three years after June 30, 1985, and was not discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability, a preexisting medical condition not characterized as a disability, for hardship, for convenience of the Government after completing 30 months of a 3-year enlistment, involuntarily for convenience of the Government as a result of reduction in force, or for a physical or mental condition not characterized as a disability and not the result of his own willful misconduct.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 9, 2000
- Citation
- 0003315
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