Robert E. Copley, Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, poses alongside Brig. Gen. Juan Manuel Mendez Garcia, director of the Emergency Operations Center for the Dominican Republic, at the opening ceremony of Fuerzas Aliadas Humanitarias in Santo Domingo May 6, 2019. FA-HUM 19 is a U.S. Army South-sponsored foreign humanitarian assistance and disaster relief exercise designed to build U.S. partner nation’s capacity for civil and military response to major disasters. More than 100 national experts from 13 Latin American countries will operate jointly throughout FA-HUM 19 simulations and training events from May 6 -17, 2019 in the Dominican Republic. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Miguel Ruiz, 100th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)