Update: Answered in the comments much more thoroughly and succinctly than I can summarize, so head below for some great answers.
She’s apparently the warrant officer, which I’ve seen hypothetical explanations state is the XO, the second in command, but she explicitly states that she is the third officer at the end of the movie, and throughout The movie she is the pilot and she checks the electrician’s work and volunteers to go fight the alien first, and also states that she is in command while the others were off the ship.
So was Kane second in command?
And what is a warrant officer?
Thank you
BTW if there is a crazy Aliens expert, I have a few tiny questions that only a crazy fan who literally read everything ever written and watched every interview about the movie might be able to answer.
You think the Android would have been number two? What about Kane?
No, it looks like Thomas Kane is the executive officer, I think Ash was just a science officer that the company installed as a plant.
But then that gives us three management officers, which seems slightly overbearing.
That is a good point… the bot was identified as the science officer