Tragic FDNY firefighter and US Marine Staff Sgt. Christopher Slutman has returned home.

The body of the 43-year-old hero, who was killed when a Taliban roadside bomb went off in Afghanistan earlier this week, arrived at Delaware’s Dover Air Force Base Thursday night.

Fellow firefighters and Slutman’s family were present as his remains again touched American soil.

“He was a great man — a man of integrity,” Uniformed Firefighter Association recording secretary Bobby Eustace, who worked with Slutman out of Ladder Co. 27 in the Bronx, told The Post ­earlier Thursday.

Eustace was among the firefighters in dress uniform at the Air Force base.

“He wanted to be the best — the best Marine, the best New York City fireman and the best family man that he could,” ­Eustace said of the married dad of three.