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is because I feel that you are being overly pedandtic!
Tim asked the question using a specific piece of phraseology. This was identified as being given by a military controller. His instructor however, was correcting him using civilian phraseology.
Within the bounds of Tim's scenario the military phraseology example and the required response was all that was needed to indicate the correct phraseology. The civilian phraseology was included to show where Tim's instructor (who may use various versions in his "day job") may be coming from.
If you want me to conduct a CATCS lesson in phraseology to answer a simple question then fair enough....