Kevin Bostick, U.S. Southern Command J7 Director, and Lt. Gen Carlos Díaz Morfa, Dominican Minister of Defense, enter the Salon Independencia at the Dominican Ministry of Defense for the opening ceremony of CENTAM Guardian 2023 (CG23) in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, May 22, 2023. CG23 is an annual Army-led combined, joint, interagency, multi-national partnership-building exercise designed to build capacity, capabilities and interoperability with Central American and Caribbean partner nations.