Service connection for Other Specified Trauma and Stressor Related Disorder is granted based on military sexual trauma (MST) experienced during service.
The deciding factor: The Board resolved any remaining doubt in the Veteran's favor due to a medical opinion endorsing a causal relationship between the diagnosis and conceded MST in service.
- Claimed conditions
- Other Specified Trauma and Stressor Related Disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 13, 2025
- Citation
- A25002817
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Decisions by this judge: 1,506 · Granted: 43% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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