However, the Army Air Forces (AAF) was finding that standard military units, based on relatively inflexible tables of organization, were proving less well adapted to the training mission. Accordingly, a more functional system was adopted in which each base was organized into a separate numbered unit.Craven & Cate, p. 75, The Organization and its Responsibilities, Chapter 2 The AAF Accordingly, the group was disbanded in 1944 as the AAF converted to the AAF Base Unit system and replaced by the 267th AAF Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station, Fighter) in a reorganization of the AAF in which all units not programmed for deployment overseas were replaced by AAF Base Units to free up manpower for assignment overseas.
