I know it’s trivial but only 5 ranks for a squadron. So clans and groups have hundreds of members that have been in game with them for years. I know other sites let you have a quite a few more than the in game one. You get the owner of the squadron and then the people who you want to be able to do everything in the squadron. Then you get the ones who have been with you for a while, then the new recruits. Why not put another couple of ranks in, yeah it may be that the squadron owners bump people up as just a little nod to you being there a while and supporting the faction your squadron is part of.