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Originally posted by TenaciousP:
I got a question at the post NCOQ board that I dont know the answer to. Here goes... What is the Honor Banner?

Stumped me.

I looked in AR 840-10 Flags, Guidons, Streamers, .... and didn't find reference to "honor banner." Did find "honor device" which is placed on a streamer...

9–6. Earned honor device
The earned honor device perpetuates regimental honors within the Combat Arms and the United States Army Regimental System. It allows each color-bearing element of the regiment to identify its own contributions to regimental history and tradition. The earned honor device is placed on the streamer of the earning unit.

Maybe the person just looked at the picture of the streamer with the honor device...okay, just kidding....

9–11. Campaign streamers
Streamers for various wars and yarn colors for embroidery of inscriptions are as described below. Inscriptions, arrowheads, earned honor devices are prescribed in AR 600-8-22. (See table 4-1 for list of campaign streamers.)

AR 600-8-22 states:
7–28. Earned honor device
To accentuate regimental honors within the Combat Arms Regimental System and, at the same time, allow each color-bearing element of the regimental family to identify its own contributions to regimental history and tradition, a device is authorized to identify each honor earned by the element. The device is authorized for display on streamers of organizational colors. (See AR 840–10 for description and display of the Earned Honor Device.)

Only "banner" mentioned was "rayon banner cloth"

FM 3-21_5 reference to "banner" included the song "Star Spangled Banner;" phase banner (IET units red, white, blue, black, and gold); and reference to the 15 star,15 stripe national banner that was the motivation for Francis Scott Keys' song.

http://www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil/CampaignStreamers/Campaign.htm
Here I found similar reference as in AR 840-10:
1. BACKGROUND. a. Battle honors were first depicted by inscribing the names of battles on the organizational color or guidon. On 25 August 1861, Major General John C. Fremont, commanding the Western Department, commended troops from Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri for their extraordinary service in the battle of Wilson's Creek, near Springfield, Missouri which had occurred 10 days earlier. The Union soldiers had fought a Confederate force five times as large and the battle ended in a moral victory for the Union Army. Fremont ordered the word "Springfield" to be emblazoned on the colors of the units involved in the fighting.

So, to (not) answer your question it appears that the person with the question either dug deep into the historical archives, or didn't word the question well.....

I'd be interested in knowing if there were such an item as an honor banner...if you can ask the person posing the question (reference included, of course)