1. From my understanding of the Chest, if a member has Leader as their permission, they need to have a leaders permission to withdraw items, but full means they can withdraw it.. I may be wrong about it, but that is my understanding, as my own personal FC is me and 2 other people, its kinda hard to test.
2. As you do leves and supply missions and stuff, your FC earns credits apart from whatever you get. The company needs a specific amount of credits to rank. I don't remember the exact amounts, but I believe Rank 5 is 50,000 credits, which is also when the Actions become available.

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