The Board of Veterans' Appeals denied the veteran's claim for service connection for PTSD, finding no probative medical evidence of a diagnosis and noting that the veteran did not engage in combat during his active duty.
The deciding factor: PTSD was not incurred or aggravated by active service due to lack of credible supporting evidence of an in-service stressor and insufficient medical evidence linking current symptoms to any claimed stressors.
- Claimed conditions
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 17, 2003
- Citation
- 0304924
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What this means for you
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