Waterboarding caused PTSD in Navy veteran

VA says disability claim rare
Veteran Arthur McCants III says interrogation training caused post-traumatic stress disorder
Friday, January 25, 2008
By GEORGE WERNETH
Staff Reporter
A claim by an Eight Mile man that he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder -- the result of being "waterboarded" during a Navy survival course in 1975 -- is a rare one, according to a Department of Veterans Affairs official in Washington, D.C.

"It's the first case I've encountered personally involving waterboarding," said Arnold Russo, director of the VA's Appeals Management Center. He acknowledged, however, that he had heard of a couple of such cases.

Russo -- whose office had rejected the claim by 60-year-old Arthur McCants III -- said he has been with the VA for 19 years.
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