The Board has granted service connection for asthma and PTSD, finding that these conditions are related to active service. Service connection was denied for a skin disability as a residual of Agent Orange exposure.
The deciding factor: Service records show the veteran had asthma since childhood and PTSD developed during combat in Vietnam.
- Claimed conditions
- Acne Vulgaris, Asthma, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 29, 2000
- Citation
- 0005267
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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