Partly granted
The Board denied service connection for depression (psychiatric disorder) and remanded the claim for a compensable rating for the Veteran's service-connected bilateral eye disability.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not support a finding that the Veteran's psychiatric disorder began during active service or was related to an in-service injury, event, or disease. The Board also found it necessary to address other reasonably raised theories of entitlement regarding the Veteran's bilateral eye disability.
- Claimed conditions
- depression (psychiatric disorder), bilateral temporal pinguecula with bilateral nasal corneal scar
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 7, 2025
- Citation
- A25086732
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