Bearcat, you're wasting your time with responding logically. Leo is craven to the school of management that believes pilots should be merely grateful for their job and how dare they expect to actually be paid to do it (except himself of course).
His antipathy to his fellow pilot stems from his past life in which his inability to get command seems to have caused bitterness towards all that did. Ryr provided him with the much needed status, including (albeit temporarily) a training command, when no one else would, hence his bowing and scraping.
The level of begrudgery and one-up-manship in this place is truly frightening and Leo is merely the pprune face of it.