The Board found that the appellant's discharge from military service was under conditions other than honorable due to a period of being absent without leave (AWOL). The Board also noted that the appellant did not have any psychiatric disorders during his military service and concluded that he was not insane at the time of the offense. Therefore, the character of his discharge is considered a bar to receiving VA compensation benefits.
The deciding factor: The appellant's period of AWOL qualified as willful and persistent misconduct, and there was no evidence of insanity at the time of the offense.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 8, 2006
- Citation
- 0616805
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