The Veteran's acquired psychiatric disability, to include PTSD, was not incurred in or aggravated by service.
The deciding factor: There is no evidence of a verified in-service stressor and the Veteran's claimed conditions are not otherwise etiologically related to service.
- Claimed conditions
- Acquired psychiatric disability (to include PTSD)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 11, 2017
- Citation
- 1757223
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