The Board has denied the veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD. The appeal is based on a direct link between current symptoms and in-service stressors without requiring any presumption or new evidence.
The deciding factor: The claim was denied as there was no established service connection due to lack of supporting evidence for the claimed stressors.
- Claimed conditions
- acquired psychiatric disorder, to include post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 16, 2002
- Citation
- 0200627
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