Canada’s top special forces soldier is facing a court martial after accidentally firing his rifle while loading it during a visit to Iraq last December.

Maj.-Gen. Michael Rouleau, commander of Canadian Special Operations Forces, says he reported the incident right away and was charged under the National Defence Act after an investigation.

Officials say a date has not been set for the court martial.

Rouleau isn’t the first senior officer to be court-martialled after accidentally firing his weapon. Brig.-Gen. Daniel Menard was ordered to pay a $3,500 fine after his rifle fired two bullets at Kandahar Airfield while he was commander of Canadian troops in Afghanistan in 2010.

Another officer, Lt.-Col. Gilles Fortin, was also fined after accidentally firing a round from his pistol in the Kabul International Airport in 2012. Fortin was forced to pay $1,500.

Up to 200 Canadian special forces troops have been deployed to Iraq where they are helping Kurdish peshmerga forces fight the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL. The commandos have been active in other parts of the world in recent years, including Belize and Niger.