Lets be honest, how many civil controllers could put their hand on their hearts and say that they have never said something along the lines of:
'can i climb the speedbird' and their opo shouts back 'yea fill your boots'. It's getting better but you know it happens.
In the mil, this almost gets beaten out of you when your training.
Yes i know there isn't as much traffic etc, but if standard phraseology is used the coordination sequence will take no more than a couple of secs.
Clarity, brevity, the key to coordination!!