The Veteran's acquired psychiatric disability, including PTSD, is granted service connection. The claim for a sleep disorder secondary to service-connected disabilities remains pending and will be remanded.
The deciding factor: The Veteran provided credible evidence of his in-service sexual assault stressor, which established the occurrence of the claimed in-service stressors.
- Claimed conditions
- Acquired psychiatric disability (including PTSD), Sleep disorder (sleep apnea)
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 24, 2019
- Citation
- 19105430
What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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