The Board granted service connection for PTSD, adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood, and asthma based on the evidence showing a link to the Veteran's active-duty service.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner opined that the Veteran's psychiatric disabilities were at least as likely as not incurred in or caused by the claimed in-service injury. The VA medical opinion explicitly outlined the stressor upon which the Veteran's PTSD diagnosis was made - a stressor from a period of ACDUTRA.
- Claimed conditions
- Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood, Asthma
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- April 30, 2025
- Citation
- A25039522
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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for PTSD, resolving reasonable doubt in the Veteran's favor and finding that his PTSD is related to an in-service military sexual trauma (MST) during a period of ACDUTRA.
- Partly granted
The Board granted an effective date of May 17, 2019, for a 70 percent disability rating for PTSD but denied earlier effective dates for service connection for bilateral hearing loss and tinnitus.
- Partly granted
The Board granted readjudication of previously denied claims for service connection for PTSD and COPD, while remanding other issues including entitlement to service connection for an eye disorder, hypertension, tinnitus, a compensable rating for bilateral hearing loss, TDIU, and an initial rating for PTSD.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for asbestosis, bronchitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), rhinitis, sinusitis, and asthma. The Veteran's bilateral hearing loss was also denied a compensable rating.
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