The Board of Veterans' Appeals denied the veteran's claim for service connection for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) due to a lack of evidence regarding the occurrence of sexual assaults in service and the relationship between PTSD and these events.
The deciding factor: The Board found that there was insufficient evidence to establish the occurrence of the claimed sexual assault during service, which is necessary to support a claim for service connection for PTSD.
- Claimed conditions
- post-traumatic-stress-disorder
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 14, 2003
- Citation
- 0315992
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What this means for you
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