
INDIAN HARBOUR BEACH, Fla. — A Marine corporal from Brevard County died as he tried to swim Iraq’s Euphrates River on a covert mission, officials said.
The body of Dustin H. Schrage, 20, was found May 6 in Al Anbar Province, a Marine Corps spokesman at Camp Pendleton, Calif., said. The body of another Marine in the same unit was found in the river a day earlier, the spokesman said.
Schrage was among six Marines taking part in a covert operation that began on May 2, said Schrage’s parents, Preston and Nina Schrage of Indian Harbour Beach.
The Schrages said they were told by the military that the swim was only “mildly difficult.” They were not told the exact nature...