The Board has recharacterized the issues as 'entitlement to service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder to include PTSD', and denied service connection for a right foot disorder and an eye disorder. The evidence does not support finding that any of these conditions were incurred or aggravated during active duty, inactive duty training, or basic training.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence does not document the onset of chronic right foot disorders during periods of active duty, inactive duty training, or basic training, nor is there sufficient evidence to establish a link between service and current diagnoses.
- Claimed conditions
- Acquired psychiatric disorder (including PTSD), Right foot disorder, Eye disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 30, 2009
- Citation
- 0937304
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