Granted
The Board granted service connection for multiple psychiatric and physical disabilities, including PTSD, bilateral hearing loss, tinnitus, left foot disability, left lower extremity sciatica, low back disability, and left arm disability.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's claimed stressors and disabilities were related to her in-service experiences, with credible evidence supporting the claims for service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- psychiatric disability, diagnosed posttraumatic stress disorder, other specified trauma and stressor-related disorder, dysthymia, and generalized anxiety disorder, bilateral hearing loss, tinnitus, left foot disability, left lower extremity sciatica, low back disability, left arm disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 17, 2025
- Citation
- A25109219
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