The Board remands the claims for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD and insomnia, and obstructive sleep apnea due to pre-decisional duty to assist errors.
The deciding factor: Remand is required to correct several pre-decisional duty to assist errors including obtaining an advisory medical opinion addressing whether the Veteran's insomnia symptoms can be differentiated from his PTSD symptoms, verifying the Veteran's claimed in-service stressors, and obtaining a VA medical opinion regarding the Veteran's PTSD if the AOJ verifies the Veteran's claimed in-service stressors.
- Claimed conditions
- Acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD and insomnia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 20, 2025
- Citation
- A25090484
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