The Board finds that the appellant's current cognitive and psychiatric disorders are not related to service, including his reported drinking of polluted water during active duty. The preponderance of evidence does not support a finding that these conditions were incurred or aggravated by service.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner concluded that the appellant's mild neurocognitive disorder and unspecified schizophrenia and other psychotic disorder are more likely due to alcohol abuse, rather than any incident in service.
- Claimed conditions
- mild neurocognitive disorder, unspecified schizophrenia and other psychotic disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 27, 2014
- Citation
- 1447611
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