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No, she was a Flight Warrant Officer first.
A Captain would be a step down.
Warrant Officers are different than enlisted or officer.
She started out as a Flight Warrant.
That's fucking hard.
Warrant Officers learn both the officer and enlisted side of information and skill.
By the time you reach WO3, you can tell majors and most colonels to fuck off.
WO4 and WO5 usually only answer to generals.
None of them answer to, or are affected by any enlisted ranks.
Weyland Yutani took Ripley's contract back for the second LV426 mission, but demoted her to being an officer at the lowest rank after Alien.
A lot of people miss that part.
She outranked Gorman, but was there as an advisor, not in their chain of command.
It's why Apone and Hicks were laughing when she proved to be competent with a loader.
They knew she had been demoted, but she still wanted to help and was competent.
Warrant officers and regular officers don't usually help the enlisted with physical labor.
Especially warrant officers. You almost never see them anywhere except behind a desk or in a helicopter.
