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Remanded (sent back)

The Board has ordered the case to be remanded for further development, including obtaining verification of service stressors and scheduling a VA examination.

The deciding factor: The Board found that there was insufficient evidence to verify the veteran's claimed in-service stressors and directed the M&ROC to attempt to obtain this information from various sources.

Claimed conditions
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
How they argued it
Direct service connection
Exposure basis
None
Rating
Not verified here — check the original decision
Decision date
December 26, 2006
Citation
0639812

Veterans Law Judge

STEPHEN L. WILKINS

Decisions by this judge: 1,599 · Granted: 37% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)

Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.

This is a plain-language summary generated by AI from a public Board of Veterans’ Appeals decision. It can contain errors — always verify against the original. Search VA.gov for the original decision (opens in a new tab) using citation 0639812.

What this means for you

A remand sends an issue back for more development, often a new examination or missing records. It does not award the benefit or decide the final outcome. The original decision explains the additional work ordered.

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