The Board is remanding the case for additional development of evidence, including obtaining personnel records from Coast Guard cutters and units where the veteran served.
The deciding factor: The appeal requires further development to obtain relevant military service records that may contain information about incidents involving physical and sexual assaults during the veteran's service.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic psychiatric disability
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 25, 2006
- Citation
- 0615313
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
What you can do next
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- Denied
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