The Board has determined that the appellant's discharge from military service is considered to have been issued under dishonorable conditions, which acts as a bar to payment of VA benefits.
The deciding factor: The appellant had multiple periods of absence without official leave (AWOL) totaling approximately 309 days during his service. The Board found that the appellant's repeated absences from duty are tantamount to desertion and preclude a finding that any portion of his service, when viewed in its totality, was honest, faithful, and meritorious and of benefit to the Nation.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 5, 2010
- Citation
- 1005337
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