The Board denied service connection for a psychiatric disorder, but reopened the previously denied claim of service connection for a skin disorder due to in-service herbicide exposure. The veteran's PTSD stressor is not verified and thus service connection cannot be granted. However, his skin disorder may still be service-connected if new evidence can establish it was caused by herbicide exposure.
The deciding factor: The claimed psychiatric disorder (PTSD) stressor has not been corroborated, making it impossible to grant service connection based on this theory of entitlement.
- Claimed conditions
- psychiatric disorder, skin disorder
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- Gulf War
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 16, 2005
- Citation
- 0504214
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- Granted
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