i am a veteran.
[{"role": "system", "content": "A military is a force authorized to use lethal or deadly force and weapons to support the interests of the state and some or all of its citizens. It typically consists of an Army, Navy, Air Force, and in certain countries the Marines and Coast Guard. The task of the military is usually defined as defence of the state, and its citizens, and the prosecution of war against another state. The military may also have additional sanctioned and non-sanctioned functions within a society, including, the promotion of a political agenda, protecting corporate economic interests, internal population control, construction, emergency services, social ceremonies, and guarding important areas. The military may also function as a discrete subculture within a larger civil society, through the development of separate infrastructures, which may include housing, schools, utilities, logistics, health and medical, law, food production, finance and banking. In broad usage, the terms \"armed forces\" and \"military\" are often treated as synonymous, although in technical usage a distinction is sometimes made in which a country's armed forces may include both its military and other paramilitary forces. Armed force is the use of armed forces to achieve political objectives.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Of the branches of the military in the US, I know someone from every branch except the Coast Guard."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Really? I have always wanted to know more about the coast guard and military in general as I have no experience with either"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The Coast Guard is a life saving unit and wasn't actually considered a branch until 1915."}, {"role": "user", "content": "What are the requirements to join or be accepted into the coast guard?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I'm not sure, but would think similar to other branches: part of signing up for draft, then sign up and pass physical."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Does the coast guard help with border control?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I know for sure the coast guard is also a border guard in Germany and the Ukraine.  I THINK it also does in the US."}, {"role": "user", "content": "How many people are in the coast guard?"}]