The Board denied service connection for post-traumatic stress disorder, finding that the current psychiatric disorders were not incurred in or aggravated during active duty and attributing them to pre-service origins.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not establish a link between the claimed inservice stressors and current symptoms due to lack of combat involvement and insufficient credible supporting evidence of the occurrence of the claimed stressor.
- Claimed conditions
- Acquired psychiatric disorder to include post-traumatic stress disorder
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 11, 2000
- Citation
- 0021164
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