v.a. medical center in dublin georgia the next day sixty eight year old olin hancock shot himself outside the main entrance of the atlanta v.a. medical center in decatur on april ninth another veteran her manes a name shot himself in the waiting room of the veteran affairs outpatient clinic in austin tex. this comes less than two months after the us president donald trump signed an executive order creating a task force to combat veteran suicides which he attributed to a lack of awareness of the a services president trump explains. most veterans who die by suicide have not been in the care of the v.a. many of them don't know about the programs that we have where the programs that we've instituted interact nearly seventy percent of those lost to suicide have not received care from the v.a. in the previous two years they're just not a aware of those great strides is just not aware. so because of this lack of awareness the suicide prevention programs touted by capitol hill only funded marketing solutions so just texting programs and hash tag campaigns they did not fund the v.a. enough to cover a single suicide prevention cou