The Board found that the evidence submitted did not constitute new and material evidence to reopen the claim of service connection for a psychiatric disability, as it did not provide information directly pertinent to the underlying question of service connection beyond what was known previously.
The deciding factor: The newly received evidence does not bear on whether the veteran's preexisting psychiatric disability began in or was aggravated by military service.
- Claimed conditions
- Psychiatric Disability
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 24, 2003
- Citation
- 0305517
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