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

I Can't Speak For Others, But When I Enlist In 1961,
I Just Assumed I'd Be Deployed To Vietnam; But I Was Sent To Little Rock AFB,
For 3 Years, Which I Enjoyed ~ Than To Osan AFB In South Korea ~ And Osan Was Like
Being Sent On A 13 Month Paid Vacation.. I Never Was Deployed To A Combat Zone, And Have Always Felt That I Served Little To No Purpose In The USAF... As Though My Enlistment Was A Waste Of Time And The Tax Payers Monies....And Uncle Sam Should Have Demanded A Refund.

You signed up to serve. Thank you for your service wherever your assignments take you.

Never as I was stationed in Germany during the Gulf War and we sent the bombs over. Lots of long hours and hard work.

No, and no one has the right to do that. I have been deployed five times and have spent 11 1/2 years overseas. Not everyone gets the chance to deploy and that is not our fault. Deployed or not, every service member has a role to play. The only people I have a disdain for are those who go through a lot of effort to ensure that they don’t get deployed.

I knew people in the Air Force back in 1977 who me he told the Command personnel he smoked weed to get out of being deployed to Viet Nam, they kept him in but busted him down two grades. Personally if I was in today and I came across people getting out of deploying, yes I would look down on them because I and my friends did deploy and its part of serving. Unless they have a medical excuse or a good personal reason.

No! Service is service.

Only if they acted like they had or I new they somehow duck out of a deployment

Did they enlist voluntarily? If ordered to go somewhere / do something would they do so? Did they refuse to deploy or intentionally make themselves non-deployable?

If the answers to the above (except the last) are yes, a the last a no, then they fulfilled their obligation as honorably as someone who deployed a dozen times.

I am one of those who never did deploy only because they didn't pick me. I was supposed to go on 2 occasions, but the Army pulled the plug both times. The last 8 years of my career before retiring was training Soldiers that were about to deploy and I made darn sure they trained to standard!

It never mattered to me. Be proud of your service. Contribute according to your gifts and the needs of our country.