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

Sometimes one simply does not get tasked; in that case-it is what it is. Those who actively try and not go over; fuck you!

I’m overseas now trying to get myself pushed out with another unit if possible to get a deployment patch, I’m over here so I might as well get something out of it that I feel proud to have and that I did my country a great duty

Absolutely not.....unless they are using some kind of influence, etc., to keep from being deployed.

I deployed for five out of my first six years. If a person really wanted to deploy, there is a way. I heard plenty of excuses, I gave them the contact info for their branch manager and let them know that you are willing to deploy and the persons song quickly changed. Deployment Rogers are a dime a dozen.

Centcom wouldn’t let me go without 90 days stability off medication. Here I am 7 months later, still stateside, and pissed as hell only that I couldn’t go.

No. Not everyone who wanted to go had the opportunity. I volunteered for three Iraq deployments and went to Afghanistan and Kosovo.

Depends. I'm grateful for those troops who stay back and take care of all the stuff when I'm forward where I want to be. It takes us all to make the machine work.
However, slackers need not apply. Dont become my liability. Stay home.

If the person did something to get out of the deployment, then yes. If, like my case, the Army changed their mind, then no. Me and 4 others from A.I.T. were given orders to go to 'Nam. We got as far as Korea, taken off the plane, and told we were needed there. Although at the end of my tour, I was sent to Nam, T.D.Y., to help load up equipment from the country and onto boats. Funny thing was when I re-enlisted in '74, I had orders for a 6 month T.D.Y in Okinawa and a tour in Thailand, but as soon as I got to Korea, they took me off the plane and told me I was needed there. The more I complained, the further north I was sent until I ended up on the DMZ. They finally told me "orders can be changed and all you did was re-enlist for overseas Pacific. If I wanted a long tour, they'd give me one there". No thanks! The DMZ was certainly different from my previous tour, which ended 4 months prior, in Seoul. Who knows what goes on in the minds of the deciders. ha!

I was the NCOIC of a flight clinic as an advanced medic 91C. I was never asked to deploy and I would if I was needed. For every troop deployed there are at least 20 who support their mission. All are important and all serve

Fuck no, I was station on the USS Austin LPD 4 and there where was a lot of the ships crew, That was not not deployed to the Gulf (91). Whether we deployed or not we are veterans. USN 86 to 91.