Sounds like a member of the good ol' boy network dying a very slow death.

I ran into similar attitudes back in the 1980s when I was trying to get a UPT slot. I had contacts in a MDANG unit and they warned me to beware of one guy in particular. They said he was bitter about not being able to get hired at any airline and took it out on the airline pilots in the unit. Since I was an outsider (enlisted in another ANG unit), and had the airline contacts, he treated me the same way.

I had to deal with an OPS officer who tried to threaten a new 2LT with a similar argument. Your CO sounds like he has a similar attitude.