Are you required to use a format that is given for accountability on your personal cell phone?

While not required to have a cell and not required to download apps on your civilian phone.....format for comms can be dictated for ease of understanding the message(s) sent.

Now, a counseling is merely a written conversation between two parties based on a particular subject. If said Counseling said to send message as "PVT Snuffee/GTG/En Route to DFAC" then that is the format one uses. That being said...if someone in the Leadership wants to be that attention to detail and get ruffled because someone spelled out Good To Go instead of GTG or even ruffled because someone used G2G...then that person has a bit too much time on their hands....but I digress......then just use the format that is required/wanted. That being said...if Accountability is being routed thru your NCOs and that eventually the PSG is submitting accountability to the higher ups....then it doesn't really matter (or rather, it shouldn't) what format you use if you are only reporting your accountability to your FLL.

If the CoC directed the format for official use then use the correct one. Would I counsel someone on it, no. It is not on an official doc so what’s the beef.