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

I was on a time duty for 4 years. Never deployed. We came close while I was in Korea, but no go. I did have a platoon Sergeant who proudly said he'd never been to war but he'd gladly send his kids to go fight. We never liked him anyways and that made it worse.

No - I would tell you to thank your friends, colleagues, god, or just dumb luck. I deployed - there are pluses and minuses - mostly a whole lot of god awful horrible minuses. That said - deployment is not some manly right of passage of some sort. It is too often a long, arduous, uncomfortable and dangerous grind - that eats up those fortunate or unfortunate enough to go - in ways that affect them always. Failure to deploy other than shirking your responsibilities is no good reason to look down on anyone. If you signed up, put on your uniform, and did what you were asked to do - perhaps a bit more if you are particularly committed - then you did your duty - and you should hold your head as high with honor and self respect as the rest of us. Warmest Regards, Sandy :)

No I would not. But I was in from 1974-1998 was in Maintenance I was at Ft. Bragg when Grenada Kicked off I was a Motor Sergeant and some My Mechanics were picked to go with Bn. Advance Party I told the LTC I should lead the Maint. guys as I was Sr. to all the Maint. NCO's except the BM NCO the LTC said No I was Married!
Then Desert Storm came along and again I was left behind to be the Rear Detachment 1st Sgt. to all the sick, lame, and crazy in the Bn. who were left behind. The in 2006 I was Pulled out of Retirement and sent to APG, Md. as an Instructor. I asked the Major who called me if I could go to Iraq or Afghanistan and he No. So I went to APG and wound up being NCOIC and Platoon Sgt. So No do not put them down or feel different of them ask them before you think bad of someone who does not wear a Patch on Right sleeve. I wound up staying on Active Duty from 2006-2010 and enjoyed every minute of it.
Thank You very much!

My deployment was in Kuwait. We got rotated to both Jordan and Iraq for a while. We pulled security even though Iraqi and Jordanian security was tight. On top of that other foreign soldiers were pulling security as well. I remember everyone was excited to go to Iraq but everyone hated it when they got there because we were more worried about leadership hovering over us about ridiculous stuff. The civilian contractors were like why the hell are you guys even here lol. My point is deployments are nothing special unless you actually do real missions. Even then it doesn't make you more high speed. I've seen staff sergeants with tons of deployments who can't get promoted.

No, I would not

I only have a problem with the one's that act like they've seen it all, when they haven't deployed.

Very odd that you haven't deployed,but that's pure luck I guess. As long as you perform eell on duty theres nobresson to look down on anyone that hasn't deployed.

No. Times change, we have to be realistic and realized that there are fewer deployment opportunities nowadays. Maybe, if you would asked me this question over a decade ago my response would have been different.

I wouldn't look down on anyone that didn't deploy, they did serve their country in uniform. have friends that didn't deploy to a Combat zone even though they volunteered many time to do so. I the long run You serve where the Military service decides they need You. As an example, one of Friends in Army Special Forces kept volunteering for Viet Nam and was never sent, He spoke German and was used all around Europe instead. One of His close friends though did spend three tours in Viet Nam with the Special Forces, both retired in the rank of Sergeant Major with each spending 30 years on active duty. Both have My mutual respect. SPC Cody Voye, thank You for Your service.

Not at all if it wasn't their call. If they were slated to go and weaseled out of it, then yeah, I probably would.