230605-N-NU642-0014 ALICANTE (JUNE 5, 2023) FLOTEX-23 senior leadership stand in front of Spain's flag. From left to right: Spanish Navy Rear Admiral Alejandro Cuerda Lorenzo (Deputy Commander of the Spanish Maritime High-Readiness Headquarters), Spanish Navy Rear Admiral Gonzalo Villar Rodriguez (Admiral of the Spanish Expeditionary Strike Group), Spanish Navy Vice Admiral José M. Nunez (Commander of the Spanish Maritime High-Readiness Headquarters), U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Scott Sciretta (Commander, Standing NATO Maritime Group Two), Spanish Marine Brigadier General José Luis Souto Aguirre (Commander of the Marines Amphibious Brigade.) 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.