‘Not the End of the Story’

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — Two decades ago, Dakota Meyer enlisted in the Marine Corps with a plan to become one of the elites operating behind enemy lines, inspired by a poster of a camo-painted Reconnaissance Marine with night-vision goggles. But a failed swim test during recon indoctrination changed the course of his career, and Meyer instead became a sniper, deploying to Afghanistan, and engaged in a deadly battle with the Taliban. While that day earned him the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest award for combat valor, it cut his Marine career short. Monday, almost one year after he reenlisted