Three of the four soldiers from a Wisconsin-based U.S. Army Reserves medical combat stress unit who were wounded in the Fort Hood, Texas, shooting have returned to duty, a military spokesman said Monday.

The only soldier still hospitalized was a woman in serious but stable condition, Army Reserve spokesman Scott Ferguson said in a telephone interview from Fort McPherson in Atlanta, home of the U.S. Army Reserve Command. No name was released.

The wounded were among 43 soldiers from the Madison-based 467th Medical Command Detachment who had arrived at Fort Hood for training last Wednesday, a day before the shooting that killed 13 and wounded 29, Ferguson said.

According to Ferguson, three of the dead were assigned to the Madison unit, including two who lived in Wisconsin - Staff Sgt. Amy Krueger, 29, of Kiel, and Capt. Russell Seager, 51, of Racine.

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Ferguson said soldiers from three Army Reserve medical command detachments with specialties in combat stress were injured in Thursday's shooting, but the Madison unit suffered the most casualties. Detachment 1908 from Topeka, Kan., had two killed and three wounded and the 1493rd from Durham, N.C., had two wounded, he said.

Authorities say Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan fired off more than 100 rounds at a soldier processing center before civilian police shot him in the torso. He was recovering Monday at an Army hospital in San Antonio in stable condition, authorities said.

Ferguson said he did not know how many of the 43 soldiers assigned to the Madison detachment were at the processing center at the time of the shooting. There is no evidence Hasan had specifically targeted any of them, other than they happened to be close by when he decided to begin shooting, Ferguson said.

The unit will be deploying to Afghanistan as planned, Ferguson said, and each soldier will be evaluated as to their readiness for duty.

"They will receive counseling and all the safeguards are there to make sure they are able to deploy," he said. "Some may join later. Some may see fit to go now."

Ferguson declined comment on when the unit is to be shipped to Afghanistan, citing security reasons, but family members have said the soldiers are to deploy in January.

One of the wounded, Pfc. Amber Bahr, 19, of Random Lake, who was shot in the back, told WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee on Monday that she had no new qualms about her duty in Afghanistan.

"I'm looking forward to it. I've got to take it easy until we deploy," she told the television station. "I have a follow up with surgery later this week, and they're going to determine whether or not they take the fragments out."

Retired Lt. Col. Mike Alesch, who spent 30 years with the 467th as a social worker officer, said the detachment's full strength is 24 soldiers, including doctors, social workers, occupational therapists, mental health technicians and even some support people, such as mechanics.

He said 11 of unit's soldiers were at Fort Hood, where it was to be beefed up with soldiers from other units.

Alesch said the last time the Army activated the detachment was in 1990 for the first invasion of Iraq.

According to Alesch, the detachment, created in 1966, has two purposes: to educate field commanders about combat stress and what to look for, and to treat soldiers suffering from it with the expectation that they can return to duty.

Everyone in the detachment is allowed to carry weapons in the field, Alesch said.