Rear Adm. Bruce A. Doll promotes Private First Class Alfonzo Mantilla to the rank of lance corporal at Hawthorne Army Depot, Nev. June 14. Doll came to visit the Marines and sailors of Marine Forces Reserve at their summer annual training. Mantilla, a senior at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Ga., is a supply specialist with Headquarters and Service Company, 4th Dental Battalion, 4th Marine Logistics Group, headquartered in Marietta, Ga.

Photo by Capt. Paul Al. Greenberg

Rear Admiral Doll visits troops at Javelin Thrust

15 Jun 2009 | Capt. Paul L. Greenberg U.S. Marine Corps Forces Reserve

HAWTHORNE ARMY DEPOT, Nev. -- Rear Adm. Bruce A. Doll, a U.S. Navy Reserve leader in military medicine, visited Reserve Marines and sailors here June 14 during their annual summer training at exercise Javelin Thrust 2009.

In his civilian career, Doll works as an Oral surgeon and dentist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pa. In the Navy Reserve, Doll is dual-hatted as deputy commander, Navy Medicine East and deputy chief, Navy Dental Corps.

More than 2,600 Marines and Sailors are participating in exercise Javelin Thrust here June 6- 20. The exercise is taking place at six military installations in California, Texas and Nevada to prepare reservists for deployment in support of overseas contingency operations, especially those in the US Central Command’s area of responsibility.