The appeal is remanded to obtain additional service personnel records and provide the Veteran with an examination to clarify his current psychiatric diagnoses and their relationship, if any, to service.
The deciding factor: The Board finds that a remand is necessary to ensure all due process requirements are met and to clarify the current diagnosis and etiology of any such diagnosis.
- Claimed conditions
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Mood disorder, Personality disorder, Bipolar disorder, Cyclothymia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 23, 2009
- Citation
- 0910651
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Decisions by this judge: 180 · Granted: 28% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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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