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

If I had first had knowledge that they dodged the deployment the hell yes I would look down on them because they are worthless in my eyes because they were trained to have my back in combat and they were not there and someone may have died because they were not there to prevent it when we needed them

During my time in I deployed to Antarctica (1982) and was there at the bottom of the world for 6 months. I served on a ship and we went on deployment and I served overseas in Italy and Greece. Did I deploy to a war zone during my time in - no. Not every job, rate, MOS etc. can or do deploy but serve nonetheless. Every person that serves has my respect unless they specifically or deliberately did something to prevent them from deploying.

SPC Vote, Did you falsify documents to make yourself nondeployable, get yourself transferred from a deploying unit to a non-deploying one or feign an illness or injury to keep from serving on a deployment order. If the answer is No, then I wouldn't look down on you. You have followed the orders and served as required, nothing wrong with that.

I have been in the military for almost 20 Years and have not deployed. I was stationed in Augsburg Germany. After active duty ( I had to get out because my wife at the time left me and my 2 year-old son in Germany) I went Army Reserve. The Reserve unit I was attached to was so jacked it could not deploy to Desert Storm so I missed that deployment - I was ready to go. I got out and started a business. After 9/11 I felt the calling again and went back in but went Navy Reserve for 3 years. I got out again to start another business. In 2014 ,at the age of 50, I enlisted in the Army reserve , was demoted to E5 (break in service) had to re-earn my E6, and am now 13 months from retirement. I have not deployed yet , but my dedication to the military is rock solid at 60. I believe that I have not deployed because I have been called upon (by a higher authority) to spred the experiences/wisdom I have gained thru the years to young solider in my battalion. I feel blessed to be able support and mentor all of the young soldiers as a Battalion S6 NCOIC. So... the reason for the story is to point out that life takes us all down a path with all kinds of twists, turns and bumps. We are all exactly where we are supposed to be right at this moment. Do not worry about those that are dodging deployment. You stay laser focused on your career and goals and remember that the Army has you right where they need you. Do your best and carry on.

absolutely.. in the Air Force there are personnel who go out of their way to avoid deployment

Your time will come. Don't worry. In 2008 I worked for an LTC who had zero combat deployments. He was a huge jerk and a coward.

No because I myself was never deployed. The closest was getting the insurance papers signed, up at zero dark thirty and locked out of barracks, loaded on trucks and taken to the airfield, Had drug dogs walk our 782 gear and steel pogey bait out of flack jacket pockets, wait until it was getting hot on tarmac , and told to Never mind, and go home. Never told why we stood down. Rumor had it that Nixon was the reason, I don't know.

If it meets your point here's some food for thought,even for me should there ever be a next time someone looks down their nose at me for it when my DD-214 of 1972 states five times I went to Vietnam though what my DD-214 of 1972 does not state of those five times never once was I boots on the ground. First I'd like to say to the whether Friend or Foe that while you're looking down your nose at me makes me at your nuts level so first off as always I went where so-called ordered and secondly what's it to you anyway by treating me in such a demeaning manner, so get what I mean while you're looking down your nose at me that makes me at your nuts level ???

It depends, if they just havent had a chance that's one thing, but if they dropped a Recruiter packet Sep 12 2001 then I have no respect for them.

Whether an individual has deployed or not is not up to you to decide. There are people an ice you who know answers to questions you don't even know to ask. Worry about yourself. Be the best you can be and help the others along. Don't judge. On a slightly controversial note. Would you want to bet your life on the actions of someone who doesn't want to be there?