Do combat arms soldiers look down on fellow combat arms brethren if they have deployed and not been awarded a combat badge/medal/ribbon?

Depends, IMHO. Back CONUS, not so much. Unless you run your mouth, are an E1-E3 or completely let your "I was there" stories run amok. More than likely, if the above happen, I will pull you aside and politely tell you to "Hush".
Now if you are a FOBBIT, Fob Goblin or a damned GEARDO; and you try to tell me "get off the phone" while I am walking to the DFAC for my 1 hot meal a week and talking to my bride, after having been at a COP and in the muhallahs the previous 7 days. I will more than likely explode, yell at you and threaten severe bodily harm to you. This isn't garrison, this isn't CONUS and unlike you, I deal with good and bad Iraqis everyday. All day. You, on the other hand have BK/ Green Beans and Hajji Shops.

Never looked down. However, did have issues with senior POG's who hid in crevices during war, to emerge after in line units spewing their arm chair nonsense.

I don't have the time to look down on, or even up to, anybody else because of the decorations on thier chests. Everyone has something to teach you and everyone has something to learn from you.

My awards don't make me a good soldier, nor do my lack of awards make me a bad one. It's a soldier's empathy, communication ability, flexibility, adaptability, esprit de corps, and willingness to share the knowledge gained from experiences that decides that.

The only award that I will ever find myself in awe of is the Medal of Honor, and that's only because I would never want to have been a siruation to have earned it.

I have seen a CIB and a CAB be awarded for a minor combat encounter that resulted in no injuries or death. However, I know friends that have them for kicking down doors and applying pressure to the enemy, instead of playing "Dodge the mortar" on base. So, it's really hard to think anything badass about it anymore. However, any SM with a combat patch can leave it at that. For the combat patch tells enough of the story, without the implication that you had to take someone's head off whilst serving in the Middle East.

I’d like to think not. Very few people in my AF career field deployed. I personally haven’t deployed. However while I was in the Army (as a Cav Scout), I spent every many freezing nights in Germany securing our family housing area to see their safety while their loved ones were fighting in Desert Storm.

I don't give any extra credit for combat badges. I was on a base where we were less than a hundred yards from half a dozen motar shells landing. We were not given a combat badge because the Upper brass on the base said no one on the base would get those type of medals for attacks on the base. I was on convoys that took some direct fire but our own commanders deemed it was not enough direct fire. I also know of other people on smaller FOBs that got them because they were in a dangerous area.

I have been in the National Guard for seven years and next year will be my second JRTC rotation followed by my second deployment year and word on the street is we will not be deploying yet again. As a soldier who hasn’t deployed and in a unit where most have I think I put the feeling of being a lessor soldier on myself. I have never felt looked down upon and I know there’s a huge difference between National Guard and active army but not once has anyone made me feel like I’m not part of the unit. I however feel like I’ll never truly be a veteran unless I deploy and contribute to our fight for freedom. Nobody wants their family’s to worry about them for an entire year but there’s a bigger part of me that’s hungry for a deployment. I know I would be proud to wear a combat patch and I sure the hell respect every one that does. There are some soldiers that also haven’t deployed that I respect very much because they work hard at what we do and then there’s some that are dead weight both with and without deployments. I guess a lot of it depends on the individual. I plan on going another thirteen years so I hope I can catch at least one deployment. God bless all of you who have deployed and made it home safe and RIP to those who didn’t make it home.

I personally have never understood why the CAB is looked down upon. I got one while i was serving as an MP. We were not infantry so we cant earn the CIB but (some of us) still saw legit combat just like the infantry did so we got awarded the CAB because we are support, but the CAB is treated like its a small thing. Im proud of mine and im sure its just as much pride as any infantry soldier has when they earn there CIB. Just because its not a CIB doesnt mean that it doesnt have the same meaning. I do understand, however, that the CAB was given to everyone (support ops) who deployed which I dont think is the way it should be but it just so happens that way. I think people should learn why that individual earned his CAB instead of judging the patch in general, then judge the persons character instead. Just my 2 cents worth i guess

I am a 12B who spent lots of time (+/- 6 months) humping the boonies with grunts in Nam. (11th and 196th LIB). Taking nothing away from the grunts, I was always a little pissed that they got a CIB and I didn't. We shared 100 percent the same experience. The only difference was the MOS.

If I had fought in the Ardennes or Tarawa, I wouldn't consider someone that guarded the Panama Canal the entire war exactly my equal, no.