The Board found no evidence of a gastrointestinal disorder during service or within one year after separation, and denied service connection for post-traumatic stress disorder due to lack of credible supporting evidence that the claimed in-service stressor actually occurred. Service connection was also denied for defective hearing.
The deciding factor: Service connection could not be established as there was no confirmed in-service stressor for PTSD and no medical diagnosis linking current symptoms to service.
- Claimed conditions
- Gastrointestinal Disorder, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 8, 2002
- Citation
- 0200203
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