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VA can grant erectile dysfunction secondary to PTSD, including ED caused by PTSD medication. The ED rating is 0%, but the grant opens SMC-K. What the medical opinion has to explain and what to check in the decision.
Compare direct, secondary, presumptive, and aggravation theories. Map your actual records to the connection question your claim needs to answer.
An Army supply specialist stored Agent Orange on Johnston Atoll in the 1970s. Decades later, one private medical opinion connected his toxic exposure to three separate conditions in a single Board decision.
Combat veterans grant at 37.2%, non-combat at 30.6%. The 6.6-point gap is real but smaller than the § 1154(b) talking points suggest. What it actually does.
Two high-volume BVA judges show a 40.6-point grant-rate spread. The corrected record and decision counts explain why the comparison needs context.
An Army helicopter aircrewman won the in-service noise concession, got a current diagnosis of sensorineural hearing loss, and still lost. Here's exactly how that happens, and what the same decision tells us about the thirteen claims it remanded.
The Board's grant rate went from 26.9% in 2023 to 30.4% in 2025. Denials up 7 points. Remands down 10. The Board is getting faster but slightly tougher.
Review VA’s burn-pit-related presumptive cancers and illnesses, qualifying service dates, and a diagnosis, service, and severity checklist.
A Marine combat rifleman walked into an exam, said his elbows started hurting during day-to-day training, and walked out with service connection. Here's exactly how that one sentence did the work.
The Federal Circuit says a claim the VA never explicitly decided is still pending. Here is how to read your decisions since 2019, spot an unaddressed issue, and act on it.
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