The Board has reopened the claim for service connection for posttraumatic stress disorder and determined that new evidence submitted by the Veteran, including a letter from his mother, is sufficient to establish an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claim. The Board also found that the Veteran's posttraumatic stress disorder was incurred in or aggravated by active duty service.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the Veteran's posttraumatic stress disorder was related to his deployment and exposure to stressful events, including witnessing dead bodies at graves registration areas and experiencing a chlorine leak. The evidence presented raised a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- posttraumatic stress disorder
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 21, 2010
- Citation
- 1003157
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What this means for you
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- Dismissed
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