The Board has granted service connection for PTSD and assigned a 30 percent disability rating. However, the appellant's total unemployability claim is denied as his service-connected disabilities do not preclude substantially gainful employment.
The deciding factor: The appellant's PTSD symptoms are currently manifested by anxiety, depressed mood, suspiciousness, and chronic sleep impairment, which generally does not prevent him from functioning satisfactorily.
- Claimed conditions
- post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), shrapnel wounds of the abdomen, diabetes mellitus, shrapnel wound of the left thigh
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- November 14, 2003
- Citation
- 0331707
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