Jargon
Is the any point to the condition and color talk, other than impressing upon people that you are a tactical kind of guy?
Yes.
Every field has its jargon. I have worked in several fields, each with its own jargon: electronics, communications, land surveying, computers, gaming, direct mail, telephone billing, education, and so on.
If you have to conduct much discourse in a specialized field, you get tired of saying "negative acknowledgement" real quick, and switch to "NAK" by day two.
In discussions about self defense, team tactics, strategic resource deployment, and stuff like that, it doesn't take long to get tired of saying
"loaded, with a round in the chamber, hammer cocked, and the safety on," or perhaps,
"blissfully unaware, completely ignorant of surroundings."
Pretty soon, you start looking for some shorthand. If there isn't any already in use, you start making some up.
Sometimes such terminology is derived as a product of deliberate effort to produce a frame of reference for educating people into a field of study.
And sometimes that happens at a cafe table at 2:00am with too much coffee and not enough sleep.
"Okay, look, we need a token that can be stored on the client and requested by the server. Like this: pretend this cookie here is the data token . . ."
Don't worry too much about how corny it sounds. If the trainers are using it in classes, and if the practitioners are using it among themselves, it's probably a good idea to learn it.