The Veteran has been diagnosed with PTSD and a mood disorder, both linked to an in-service personal assault. The Board finds sufficient circumstantial evidence to corroborate the Veteran's assertions of physical assault during basic training.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's consistent statements about being pushed down stairs by his sergeant during basic training are supported by service personnel records indicating behavioral changes and corroborated by statements from his sister and mother, leading to a finding that there is sufficient circumstantial evidence to corroborate the in-service stressor of personal assault.
- Claimed conditions
- Acquired psychiatric disability (including PTSD and mood disorder)
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 11, 2013
- Citation
- 1329131
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