Mathis v. Dept. Of Veterans Affairs

ORDER

While serving on active duty in the U.S. Army from June 1968 to September 1969, Geiry L. Mathis was injured as a result of a gunshot wound to the left side of his head. A Department of Veterans Affairs Regional Office (RO) granted Mr. Mathis service-connected disability status, rating his residual wounds at 10% disabling and his headaches and tinnitus as the result of the trauma as 10% disabling. The RO subsequently increased Mr. Mathis’s combined disability rating to 60% disabling based on the finding that he was entitled to service connection for a nonpsychotic organic brain syndrome…