Source: United States SOUTHERN COMMAND
CENTAM Guardian 2025, an annual exercise co-sponsored by U.S. Southern Command and Guatemala’s Ministry of Defense, neared its conclusion with a culminating event held May 22 at Mariscal Zavala military base here. Attended by Navy Adm. Alvin Holsey, the commander of U.S. Southern Command; Gen. Hermelindo Choz Soc, Guatemala’s chief of national defense; and other senior leaders, the culminating event demonstrated the capacities developed by exercise participants as they responded – with Guatemala in the lead – to a notional security crisis compounded by a notional natural disaster.