The Veteran has been diagnosed with PTSD related to service and the evidence verifies his claimed in-service stressor.,Right ear hearing loss is reasonably related to military service.
The deciding factor: Both a private clinician and VA examiner found that the Veteran's current PTSD symptoms are linked to his service, and there was corroborating evidence of an in-service stressor. For right ear hearing loss, the Board accepted the Veteran's account of exposure to acoustic trauma during service.
- Claimed conditions
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Right Ear Hearing Loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 12, 2010
- Citation
- 1013727
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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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