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

Not really, we should be teaching those that havent deploy in our expierances and what we learned, sometimes the hard way so they dnt make the same mistakes

I think a few others covered it but here's the thing. Some people just dont get that opportunity. Others ACTIVELY try to avoid deployments. The latter is the ones that most people "look down" on. But there will always be that sense of "I've been there, and you will never understand until you have been there". That's why so many veterans are disconnected from the civilian world. We're different.

I wouldn’t look down on that person. Being in a combat zone turns into a personal thing eventually.

I believe with todays military and the reoccurring deployments its got to be difficult to skirt deployments, but having said that, taking into account occupation, pcs cycle, I'm sure its possible, but I don't look down on them for it

Only if they have had the opportunity and weaseled their way out of it.

Never. I do tell any lower enlisted willing to listen, if a deployment comes up and you can get on it do it. I have recommended quite a few and the have got on missions to Egypt and Poland. It is good for there careers and everyone had come back a better person and thanked me.
In todays military , deployments are getting scarcer and harder to get on.
I have tons of respect just for them being in and willing to do there part.
Now the ones that dodge there duty should rethink where they are

If they are dodging deployments they should get out, it's not fair to the others that have to carry their weight. If you just didn't get the opportunity good on you, it's likely that you won't encounter the issues a lot of folks have when they return.

I never deployed and I was in 7-01 - 9-06. I came on orders a couple wks before my unit was deploying the first time I had an opportunity. I begged to stay, but was sent back stateside to my new unit. There I had another opportunity to deploy. The first time volunteers were sought and said no bc I had just been marriedsnd was trying to get to Hawaii with the wife. When denied I prepared for deployment and eventually was injured to where I was given a medical. Anyway, the point is that looking down on anyone shouldn't happen. Yes we signed up, but ppl go through stuff in life that at the moment adding a deployment to the mix just makes life 10x worse. A coward on the other hand is just a coward and nothing more. If you don't want to deploy bc all of a sudden you're scared if death, you will be the first person clearing a building, or a little time in Fort Leavenworth for displaying cowardes. But those whom didn't deploy for other reason shouldn't be treated differently for it. It happens!

Unless you're one like a former NCO of mine that bragged he would never deploy you're good in my book. Hold your head high

When asked about my Service, I always make clear that I never heard a shot fires in anger. For better or worse, we didn’t have much going on 84-87. I also make clear that I am proud of my service, but that my “sacrifice” was zero.