The Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center is a major player in the fight against terrorism. The medical center cares for hundreds of returning soldiers from the battlefield. Brig. Gen. Eric Schoomaker, commander of the Southeast Region Medical Command and the medical center, not only wanted to provide the best medical attention to these soldiers as possible, but provide them and every patient, visitor and staff the safest and most secure environment.
“With this as a primary mindset the hospital undertook an aggressive program to modernize the medical center’s aging security systems,” said Robert D. O’Brien, CHPA, CPS, chief of security operations for the medical center and provost marshal, Southeast Region Medical Command. O’Brien is a 22-year retired veteran of the Army Military Police Regiment and was hired shortly after September 2001.