The Board has denied the claim of service connection for major affective illness, recurrent depression, heel spurs, and right leg pain due to a character of discharge under conditions other than honorable.
The deciding factor: The appellant's character of discharge was found to be 'under conditions other than honorable' which is a statutory bar to all VA benefits.
- Claimed conditions
- major affective illness, recurrent depression, heel spurs, right leg pain
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 29, 2007
- Citation
- 0727021
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