Colonel Shotwell said a military hearing will be held in two to three weeks to consider whether to bring charges.

Soldiers who are tried usually get light sentences or are quietly disciplined in military hearings.

He spent his birthday in a pre-trial military hearing that could ultimately lead to a sentence of life ... or death.

A military hearing to decide whether he should go to trial recessed today until Aug. 11, when the fifth woman is scheduled to testify.

Also great, he believed, was the cost of trying suspects in military hearings that much of the world considered illegitimate.

To detain an enemy soldier, a relatively informal military hearing must establish a connection between him and a battlefield.

"This incident makes the people, the citizens, hate us," an Iraqi sergeant later explained at a military hearing.

On October 12, 2010, Hasan was due to appear for his first broad military hearing into the attack.

Their case is now the subject of a military hearing to determine if there is enough evidence to recommend that the soldiers go before a court-martial.

The recommendations, issued Thursday, were the culmination of a military investigative hearing last month to determine whether enough evidence existed for a court-martial.