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§ 3.303 Principles relating to service connection. (a) General. Service connection connotes many factors but basically it means that the facts, shown by evidence, establish that a particular injury or disease resulting in disability was incurred coincident with service in the Armed Forces, or if preexisting such service, was aggravated therein.
§ 3.303 Principles relating to service connection. (a) General. Service connection connotes many factors but basically it means that the facts, shown by evidence, establish that a particular injury or disease resulting in disability was incurred coincident with service in the Armed Forces, or if preexisting such service, was aggravated therein.
(a)General. The basic considerations relating to service connection are stated in § 3.303. The criteria in this section apply only to disabilities which may have resulted from service in a period of war or service rendered on or after January 1, 1947. (b)Presumption of soundness.
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General. (1) In order for suicide to constitute willful misconduct, the act of self-destruction must be intentional. (2) A person of unsound mind is in-capable of forming an intent (mens rea, or guilty mind, which is an essential element of crime or willful mis-conduct). unsoundness be service con-nected.
Title 38 - Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief Chapter I - DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Part 3 - ADJUDICATION Subpart A - Pension, Compensation, and Dependency and Indemnity Compensation Subjgrp - Ratings and Evaluations; Service Connection Section § 3.303 - Principles relating to service connection.
Any increase in severity of a nonservice-connected disease or injury that is proximately due to or the result of a service-connected disease or injury, and not due to the natural progress of the nonservice-connected disease, will be service connected.
§3.304 38 CFR Ch. I (7–1–10 Edition) in the personality structure manifested by a lifelong pattern of action or be-havior, chronic psychoneurosis of long duration or other psychiatric symp-tomatology shown to have existed prior to service with the same mani-festations during service, which were
Service connection connotes many factors but basically it means that the facts, shown by evidence, establish that a particular injury or disease resulting in disability was incurred coincident with service in the Armed Forces, or if preexisting such service, was aggravated therein.
VA outlines continuity of symptomatology in 38 CFR § 3.303 (b). Generally speaking, veterans may qualify for service connection based on continuity of symptomatology if symptoms of a chronic condition have recurred regularly, without some intervening cause, since the time they left the military.