Rick Baccus (born August 30, 1952) is a retired Army National Guard Brigadier General.

He held various positions, mostly related to operations and logistics, and was selected as the United States Property and Fiscal Officer for Rhode Island in June 1999.

On March 28, 2002, Baccus took command of Joint Task Force 160 where he was the head of the Military Police at Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Baccus: …Within several days after I left, that's when they [the Military Intelligence team] floated the first memo about how they wanted to operate differently."

[1] General Baccus retired from the National Guard on December 5, 2002, shortly after his return from Guantanamo Bay.

He was later employed as the administrator of the Rhode Island Veterans Home, overseeing the construction of an entirely new $73 million facility which opened in November 2017.