Would you look down on someone who hasn't deployed?

Would totally depend on the circumstances. I have no respect for service members who try to wiggle out of doing their part.

I deployed on CVN-69 and 73 but never counted them as a deployment since I wasnt going door to door like the Marines and Army. Always felt like I cheated!

Don't want to beat a dead horse here, but I have had the pleasure of working with soldiers senior to me who have not deployed but are very proficient in all aspects of their MOS. These soldiers had volunteered their names for deployment, but weren't needed at the time. Still, they remained professionals and kept themselves sharp on their various soldiering tasks, ready for whatever came their way. Now, being in the ARNG, I have seen dudes that have become more civilian than soldier, and deployment was the last thing on their mind. But as a fellow specialist, I'm sure you've seen both ends of the E-4 spectrum. Some guys will take time out of their day to teach the new PFC in his platoon how to disassemble and properly maintain the 0.50 cal, while other specialists would rather nap the rest of the day away until night ops. If you stay proactive with your tasks, complete all your training objectives with good motivation, and you don't shirk your duties, then you have nothing to be ashamed of; you are a part of the team that is the Army.

I don't "look down" those that haven't deployed or had boots on the ground.
I do have a more common bond with those that have done so though..

In the civilian world it's like talking to someone who graduated med or law school & never practiced. Or, I was good enough for the Olympics but I didn't go. Granted, many times it is not the fault of the service member. If their command held them from deployment, then that is shameful that the command give not give that person the opportunity. If everytime a deployment came up & they weaseled their way out of it, then they are a slug. They should get the boot & let a qualified person take their place. We are supposed to be a fighting force, not some training position. 16 years of war with no deployments & no patch on the right sleeve does make me shake my head if they have any rank. They trained, they never did.

If you're actively trying to avoid going on a deployment, then I have a special level of disdain for you. If you simply haven't been sent out to sea or into theater, then we simply needed you more where you currently are. There's plenty of reasons why someone hasn't been OCONUS in their career, it doesn't mean they weren't crucial to what happened in Iraq, Afghanistan, or anywhere else we are operating.

And if it bugs you personally that you haven't gone on a deployment, you can always ask your detailer about any IA billets that need to be filled.

If They deliberately avoided deployment they are no better than the draftdodgers during Vietnam. The Army National Guards full time force in particular has been very guilty of this since 9/11. Mostly their full time officers. For example, in California one individual went from Lieutenant Colonel on 9/11 to 2 stars currently and has never left the state headquarters. What a joke. The National Guard even had a four-star general, the first National Guard General to be on the Joint Chiefs of Staff with four stars & no deployments. How embarrassing. A slick sleeve four star. I have no use for such people or the senior officers who see to their promotions and schools over the warriors.

In my opinion, I wouldn't. Speaking from experience, I'll be in 7 years before my first deployment and as an NCO no less. My first assignment was under Air Force Global Strike Command. So with that, my unit had ceased deploying a few years before I got there. You fast forward 6 years, a new base, and a new MAJCOM and now I can finally deploy.

I struggled with "never-deployed" guilt for years before i saw Taking Chance, starring Kevin Bacon as USMC Lt. Col. Michael Strobl. There's a scene at the VFW the night after he arrives in LCpl Chance's hometown, when Lt Col is confiding in a retired Marine:

LtCol Mike Strobl: I stayed home. I was trained to fight. If I'm not over there, what am I? Those guys, guys like Chance... they're Marines.

Charlie Fitts: And you think you're not? Want to be with your family every night - you think you have to justify that? You'd better stop right there, sir. You've brought Chance home. You're his witness now. Without a witness, they just disappear.

Thank you Charlie Fitts for setting me straight. And for slicing onions 4th ou ninja.

If they haven't deployed just because that's the way it worked out for them then no I don't look down on them. If they haven't deployed because they found a way out of it or faked a way out of it then they are shitbags and I have no use for them