In the mid-2000s, Rachon Rohe joined the Patriot Guard, a group of motorcycle riders whose mission was to insulate the grieving families of military personnel who had died from protestors aiming to use the funerals for political purposes.

“Having family and friends in the military, it was my way of supporting them,” she said.

Then she became an emergency medical technician and administrative assistant for the Lake City Ambulance Service.