The Board has determined that the appellant's character of discharge is a bar to VA benefits due to bad conduct. However, additional development is needed including obtaining service medical records and determining if the appellant was insane at the time he committed offenses resulting in his discharge.
The deciding factor: VA needs to obtain missing service medical records and determine if the appellant was insane during military service as this could affect whether his character of discharge bars VA benefits.
- Claimed conditions
- Bad Conduct
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 22, 2014
- Citation
- 1442380
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
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