The Board has granted the Veteran's application to reopen his claims for service connection for PTSD and hypertension. The new evidence received since the final denial of these claims is found to be material, raising a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claims.
The deciding factor: New evidence includes statements from the Veteran regarding stressors in service and corroborating information from a police chief's letter and newspaper articles about a helicopter crash off Virginia Beach. This new evidence relates to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claim of service connection for PTSD, raising a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Hypertension
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 12, 2010
- Citation
- 1001971
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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.
What you can do next
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Granted
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- Remanded (sent back)
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