The Board has granted service connection for PTSD, but denied service connection for a respiratory condition. The veteran's PTSD is based on a stressor related to his son's death during service, while the respiratory condition claim was not supported by evidence of in-service injury or disease.
The deciding factor: PTSD was found to be linked to a verified combat-related stressor (witnessing his son's death), meeting the criteria for new and material evidence. The respiratory condition claim lacks supporting evidence of an in-service event.
- Claimed conditions
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Respiratory Condition
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 24, 2002
- Citation
- 0208296
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