Dan Davenport
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That's kind of funny to me as I always interpreted the dismissive delivery of the line to meant that a "bug hunt" was like a "snipe hunt" or a "wild goose chase", that this was just going to be a waste of time, not that fighting hostile alien threats was something that they did all the time. On top of that, the complete dismissal everyone has for Ripley's story ("She's some kind of consultant. Apparently, she saw an alien once."), it seems strange for it to be a normal thing.
Based on the response to this -- "Whoopie fuckin' doo! Hey, I'm impressed!" -- I took the interaction to mean that they had encountered alien lifeforms previously and that this was no big deal.