Stuart P. Baker is a retired United States Navy officer, holding the rank of rear admiral.

After spending time with Carrier Air Wing Fourteen as a CVW-14 strike operations officer, he was deployed in support of United States operations in the Iraq War, serving with VFA-146 aboard the USS John C. Stennis in the Arabian Gulf and CVW-9 aboard the same ship.

[5] The Theodore Roosevelt departed from its Naval Base San Diego home port in mid-January, with more than 6,000 sailors on board, for a seven-month deployment in the Western Pacific (Indo-Pacific Command) region.

The Theodore Roosevelt's captain, Brett Crozier, urged to have most of the sailors immediately removed from the ship, quarantined ashore, and tested for the virus to prevent the spread of the disease.

[5] On March 29, after four days of his pleas being rebuffed by Baker and other superiors, Crozier sent a four-page memorandum to ten Navy officers including Baker and his two immediate superiors, Admiral John C. Aquilino and Vice Admiral DeWolfe Miller III.