The Veteran's appeal for service connection for alcohol use disorder is dismissed. The Board grants service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, including major depressive disorder and anxiety disorder.
The deciding factor: The private medical opinion established a link between the Veteran’s current diagnoses of generalized anxiety disorder and major depressive disorder with PTSD features to his in-service duties involving air traffic control.
- Claimed conditions
- alcohol use disorder, major depressive disorder, anxiety disorder
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 12, 2019
- Citation
- 19128794
What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Dismissed
The claim for an earlier effective date for service connection for major depressive disorder is dismissed as moot because the earliest effective date was granted during the pendency of this appeal.
- Granted
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- Granted
The Board granted service connection for a liver condition, finding it to be secondary to the Veteran's service-connected depressive disorder.
- Remanded (sent back)
The appeal is remanded for further development and consideration of the Veteran's claims for service connection for various acquired psychiatric disorders.
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