Provisional Organization, CWS UTC, February

The battalions and regiments were provisional organizations responsible for the military control of the companies and for certain features of their training operations. The number and type of companies assigned to battalions were determined by administrative convenience. Five or six companies usually constituted one battalion. One type of company predominated in each battalion. 

Four command levels were active within the Unit Training Center UTC headquarters, the regiment, the battalion, and the company. Although each had definitely prescribed responsibilities in the scheme of unit training, the first three existed solely for the purpose of furthering the efforts of the company in preparing itself for field operations. 

The company was the pivot for all activities at the Unit Training Center. From the moment of activation, the company commander was charged with full exercise of the command of his organization, which included the conduct of all instruction and drills. He usually had an authorized complement of lieutenants and an experienced cadre of enlisted personnel to assist him in company training, yet the responsibility was his. 

The movement of replacement trainees from their original tent city camp into newly completed barracks, which began late in 1942, opened the way for the accommodation of imit training at Camp Sibert. Shortly this bivouac area, which had been developed by the Replacement Training Center, became available for the housing of units. But it could shelter no more than five thousand, and in immediate prospect was the unit training of a much larger body of troops. 

The UTC housing scheme was developed on a pattern of regimental areas, with provision for six regiments. Within these areas, groups of five-company battalions were laid out. Seven or eight 34-man barracks were 

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