Captain Brendon Baker serves as an Assistant Professor of Aerospace Studies and the Director of Operations at Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC) Detachment 880 at Virginia Military Institute. In this role, he instructs, mentors, and develops AFROTC cadets across four college campuses within the AFROTC Southeast Region. He is responsible for planning, coordinating, and overseeing all training operations and cadet wing activities in support of the mission to develop future leaders for the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force.

Capt Baker commissioned into the Air Force through AFROTC at Utah State University in May 2017. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and was selected for the Space Operations career field. In September 2020, he transferred his commission to the newly established U.S. Space Force and is currently pursuing a Master of Science Degree in Space Systems Management from Florida Institute of Technology.

As a Space Operations Officer, he supported dozens of missions across six U.S. Combatant Commands and participated in multiple large joint exercises to include Austere Challenge in Ramstein, Germany, Freedom Shield in South Korea, and was the first-ever Mission Planning Chief for Black Skies at Vandenberg Space Force Base (SFB), California. Additionally, he has trained U.S. Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Australian Army and Air Force, Royal Air Force, and the Royal Canadian Air Force personnel on leveraging space capabilities as a force multiplier for ongoing operations and missions.