The veteran's service-connected disabilities, including PTSD and a shell fragment wound to the neck, are severe enough to prevent him from obtaining or maintaining substantially gainful employment.
The deciding factor: The veteran's service-connected disabilities (PTSD and a shell fragment wound to the neck) cause sufficient functional impairment to preclude him from obtaining and maintaining substantially gainful employment in a position consistent with his educational and industrial background.
- Claimed conditions
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Residuals of a shell fragment wound to the neck
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- July 31, 2006
- Citation
- 0622838
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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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