The Board found that the appellant does not have a diagnosis of PTSD and did not engage in combat with an enemy, thus denying his claim for service connection.
The deciding factor: PTSD was not incurred in or as a result of military service due to lack of a diagnosed condition and insufficient evidence of an in-service stressor.
- Claimed conditions
- Post-Traumatic-Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 25, 2003
- Citation
- 0305676
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