Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for service connection for PTSD due to a pre-decisional duty to assist error, specifically the failure to verify the Veteran's in-service stressors and provide an adequate medical opinion.
The deciding factor: The AOJ failed to verify the Veteran's claimed in-service stressors and provided an inadequate medical opinion, both of which are pre-decisional duty to assist errors requiring remand.
- Claimed conditions
- posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 16, 2025
- Citation
- A25108484
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