I just thought to check the info panel for NPCs spawned from the Debug menu, turns out even though I select "Veteran" other ranks are being spawned as well within the squad.
So I'm now sure the mod works, its the way the game spawns squads which is the issue.
I'll run a test on ALL of your files, all ranks, and see what happens.
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