Frost: Uh... A wut?
Clearly not trained in anything to do with what they're actually dealing with. At all. As a specialist unit this is a complete fael.
fial.
fail. lol.
Don't forget what Hicks asks next. "What exactly are we dealing with, here?" indicating he's willing to take her seriously but still doesn't know what she's talking about until she expressly describes it.
Who said this outfit was trained for situations like this? Oh yeah, Greenman Gorman - with input from Burke. lol.
These Marines have never encountered Aliens before. Never. Otherwise they'd know flame units would be pointless and it would be smartgun harnesses on everyone's shoulders. Or, after the initial sweep of the colony, they'd go back the Sulaco after finding no survivors other than a child and shitstorm the colony from orbit with nukes. They wouldn't even enter the processor looking for PDA owners. They know they're f**ked.
That is, if these marines had ever encountered Aliens before.
-Windebieste.