The Board has determined that the Veteran's PTSD is related to in-service stressors and grants service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: PTSD was incurred in service due to reported combat-related stressors during service as a medic.
- Claimed conditions
- post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), right shoulder condition, skin rash, bilateral hearing loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 27, 2010
- Citation
- 1003987
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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.
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- Denied
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- Granted
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- Remanded (sent back)
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