Granted
The Board granted service connection for psychiatric disability, to include PTSD, unspecified anxiety disorder, and depression, based on the Veteran's credible lay testimony regarding a helicopter incident during service.
The deciding factor: The Board found that all three elements of service connection were established by competent and credible lay and medical evidence, including the Veteran's consistent reports of a helicopter incident in 1990 and his symptoms starting shortly after this event.
- Claimed conditions
- post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), unspecified anxiety disorder, depression
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- February 27, 2025
- Citation
- 25002860
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