The Board has determined that the appellant's ACDUTRA service does not meet the criteria for attaining Veteran status, and therefore cannot establish service connection for any of the claimed disabilities. The Board also found no competent or credible evidence linking any of these conditions to the appellant's military service.
The deciding factor: There is no competent medical evidence establishing a link between the appellant's current disabilities and her ACDUTRA service.
- Claimed conditions
- Heart disability, Acquired psychiatric disorder (likely depression or schizophrenia), Headaches disability, Low back disability
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 20, 2013
- Citation
- 1316411
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