230604-N-NU642-0020 ALICANTE (JUNE 4, 2023) Evening colors ceremony on the flight deck of the ESPS CASTILLA as she held a reception for the start of FLOTEX-23. FLOTEX-23 is a Spanish Navy-led maritime exercise designed to provide joint warfare interoperability training in a Crisis Response Operation, in a medium-intensity environment with high-intensity peaks, multi-domain operations and a hybrid-threat fictitious geopolitical scenario. The annual exercise provides the Spanish Navy with the opportunity to implement, test and evaluate the capabilities of the naval force on an operational and tactical level. FLOTEX-23 is not just a national exercise, as there are NATO Allied members embedded in the Staff as well as Allied units from many NATO nations.