BVA Case 11-782: Ptsd

The Secretary asserts that the Board's decision should be vacated and the matter remanded because the Board failed to provided an adequate statement of reasons or bases for its decision.

3 The Board found that the appellant's asthma was 'noted' at the time the appellant entered military service,stating that the appellant's March 1968 pre-induction examination report documented that the claimant was an asthmatic albeit not verified.

Moreover,the Board failed to address relevant precedent when it relied on the appellant's pre- induction examination report to find that the appellant's condition was noted at entry.

The Board cited the appellant's pre- induction examination,but failed to consider that the appellant's clinical evaluation did not show any abnormalities of his lungs or state that he had asthma at the time of induction.

In addition,although the Board acknowledged that the appellant's reported history of asthma had not 4 been verified,the Board did not address what significance,if any,to assign to the fact that the examining physician failed to record this history under the section SUMMARY OF DEFECTS AND DIAGNOSIS.

In the decision on appeal,the Board determined that the appellant's claim for a compensable disability rating had been pending from September 1992 (R.

In rendering its decision, the Board noted that examiners recorded no pertinent abnormal clinical findings regarding the left fifth metatarsal disability, and that the [v]eteran's only complaints were of recurrent left foot pain and swelling.

Analysis The parties agree that a remand is required because the Board failed to address the relevance of 38 C.