MILWAUKEE (AP) -- A 21-year-old Milwaukee man now knows first hand the kind of street cred military identification offers.
The man says he was walking from work at about 1:15 a.m. Tuesday when four men approached him. The man, who asked not to be identified because the robbers still have his keys, says one pulled him into an alley, where they took his wallet, phone, keys and even a PowerBar wrapper from his pants' pockets.
But when one robber saw the man's Army ID in his wallet, he told the others to return the items and apologized. He told the soldier he respects what he does and thanked him. The Milwaukee man says the robber even gave him a fist bump.
The victim says he attends the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and has been in the Army Reserves for about a year.
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