basic entitlement

basic entitlement Sec. 331. For disability resulting from personal injury suffered or disease contracted in line of duty, or for aggravation of a preexisting injury suffered or disease contracted in line of duty, in the active military, naval, or air service, during other than a period of war. the United States will pay to any veteran thus disabled and who was dis- 71 Stat. 100 charged under conditions other than dishonorable from the period of service in which said injury or disease was incurred, or preexisting injury or disease was aggravated, compensation as hereinafter provided in this part, but no compensation shall be paid if the disability is the result of the veteran’s own willful misconduct.