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You can always claim disabilities that have been diagnosed after service. In fact, having an inservice diagnosis is not even a requirement to establish service connection. Does it help? Of course, it does. But is it required? Absolutely not. Many, if not all, or most of our clients have claims in which they had an inservice event and that led to a later diagnosis that wasn’t discovered or even treated until after service. All that is required to be established for service connection is a current disability, an inservice event,
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injury, exposure, symptom manifestation, etc. And a nexus connecting those two. So for example, if you were a paratrooper and you had hundreds of jumps and now you have degenerative joint disease of your knees, you are service connected even though that diagnosis didn’t come until after service. The disability didn’t even manifest till after service, but it was caused by the inservice repeated jumps. If you began having sleep problems or anxiety during service and you weren’t treated and you didn’t realize you had
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PTSD and you weren’t diagnosed until after service, that is still service connected. That inservice manifestation, the inservice event or a stressor, that is what the critical component is when it comes to establishing service connection. As long as you can tie a nexus to the inservice event, exposure, injury, stressor, manifestation, etc.,
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