The Board has determined that the veteran's PTSD, with superimposed major depression, was incurred in active military service and granted service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: The probative evidence corroborates the incurrence of inservice combat stressors and supports a finding of service-related PTSD, with a superimposed major depression.
- Claimed conditions
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Gout, Hiatal Hernia, Kidney Stones, Fatty Tumors
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 2, 2003
- Citation
- 0333572
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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