FLOTEX-22. The largest annual exercise organized by the Spanish Navy.

Yesterday, June 13th the FLOTEX-22 maneuvers began. It is an advanced joint training exercise which, in the words of Admiral General Antonio Martorell, Chief of Staff of the Spanish Navy, constitutes ‘the largest and most important exercise not only of the Fleet, but of the whole Navy’.

From June 13 to 24, more than fifty units and 4,000 troops from the Spanish Navy, Army, Air Force, NATO and EUROMARFOR groups, and units from the United States, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and Belgium, will take part in a series of drills that represent a qualitative leap forward in their own training and allow the assessment of capabilities and the degree of interoperability and coordination between units from different nations.

The exercise has been programmed by the Fleet Commander as part of the advanced training of the Force and will be conducted by the Commandant of the Spanish Marine Corps (COMGEIM), Major General Rafael Roldán Tudela, supported by the High Readiness Maritime Headquarters (CGMAD in its Spanish initials).

These joint training constitutes a unique opportunity to advance in the improvement of the capabilities and the interoperability between different structures and units, always in search of a greater operational efficiency. The theater of operations was the waters of the Gulf of Cadiz, Strait of Gibraltar and the Alboran Sea, in addition to the Sierra del Retin Range.