The Board has determined that the veteran's claims for service connection are not well grounded. The evidence does not support a finding of current disabilities related to his military service, and there is no medical nexus linking any diagnosed conditions to his service.
The deciding factor: The recent psychiatric and psychological assessments concluded that the veteran's adjustment disorder from service has no relationship to his current psychiatric disability diagnosis, and major depression was not linked to service.
- Claimed conditions
- post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), major depression, adjustment disorder with depressed mood, loss of feeling in the right hip
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 22, 2000
- Citation
- 0013546
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