The Board has granted service connection for posttraumatic stress disorder due to military sexual trauma. However, the claim for tinnitus was denied as there is no evidence of a current disability and no link between the condition and service.
The deciding factor: There is no competent medical evidence linking the Veteran's tinnitus to her military service.
- Claimed conditions
- posttraumatic stress disorder due to military sexual trauma
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 19, 2018
- Citation
- 1803585
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- Remanded (sent back)
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