Martinsburg, West Virginia (CNN) — US Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom and US Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe were called to the nation’s capital in August as National Guard troops from multiple states responded to President Donald Trump’s surge of federal law enforcement in the area.

But on the eve of Thanksgiving, the two West Virginia National Guard members were injured in an “ambush style” shooting just blocks away from the White House.

After undergoing surgery, both Beckstrom, 20, and Wolfe, 24, remain in critical condition Thursday, with federal and local authorities , their West Virginia neighbors and their loved ones calling for prayers.

“Please keep my son in your prayers,” Wolfe’s father, Jason Wolfe, told CNN.

His son is “a great person” and “he’s a fighter,” he shar

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