The Board has granted service connection for GERD, adjustment disorder with anxiety and depressed mood, and fatigue syndrome. The diagnoses are related to the Veteran's participation in Project SHAD testing during his military service.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found that the Veteran's symptoms were causally related to his confirmed participation in Project SHAD testing in September and October 1973.
- Claimed conditions
- Gastric disability (GERD), Acquired psychiatric disability (adjustment disorder with anxiety and depressed mood), Fatigue syndrome
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 13, 2016
- Citation
- 1635770
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