Marine SSgt. Daniel Brown, who had just returned to the U.S. from eight months in Iraq, was delayed from his final flight home Tuesday because his name appeared on a Transportation Security Agency “no-fly” list.

Brown was returning with his unit, 26 other military police reservists, to Minneapolis, when in Los Angeles, the Northwest ticket agent told him he was on the no-fly list.

“I was told it was going to take some time because they informed me I was on a government watch list,” Brown told theSt. Paul Pioneer Press. “People at the Northwest counter said they had to call somebody to get me cleared.”

The rest of his unit waited for him at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport before going to meet their families.

“We don’t leave anybody behind,” said Marine 1st Sgt. Drew Benson. “We start together, and we finish together.”

“A guy goes over and serves his country fighting for eight or nine months, and then we come home and put up with this crap?” Brown said.

Finally, people are getting it.

ThePioneer Press reported on Brown’s trouble last summer in leaving home to go to Iraq in the first place. Brown apparently had gunpowder residue on his boots and missed his flight to training in California. He believes that he was added to the watch list at that time.

Thousands of Americans are mistakenly matched to the no-fly list, according to the TSA, including babies, prominent Bush administration critics, Congressmen, and many other people.