The Board of Veterans' Appeals has determined that the veteran's PTSD is due to in-service stressors and finds it incurred during her military service. As a result, the veteran's claim for service connection for PTSD is granted.
The deciding factor: The veteran provided credible statements regarding stressful events experienced during her military service, which led to diagnoses of PTSD and depressive disorder by mental health professionals and private physicians. The stressors related to her role as a nuclear weapons technician in Germany are considered the cause of her current psychological conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Depressive Disorder
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 24, 2001
- Citation
- 0125178
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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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Veteran's claim for an effective date prior to December 27, 2019 for the grant of service connection for PTSD was denied as there is no earlier claim document in the claims file and the Veteran did not timely perfect an appeal.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeal for service connection for PTSD has been dismissed as the claim was granted and effective from February 22, 2023.
- Granted
The Veteran's psychiatric disorder, specifically depressive disorder, is rated at 70 percent effective from August 3, 2021. The claim for a higher rating remains denied.
- Granted
The Veteran's PTSD is granted as a result of military sexual trauma (MST) that occurred during service. The Board found the Veteran's testimony and supporting evidence credible, including her VA and private treatment records.
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