MISSION: To provide Combat Veterans with a web portal featuring pertinent information, professional summaries, and publishing opportunities to preserve history. This digitized information will be preserved for a duration available for instant viewing as educational archives for current and future generations. Only personal content provided and approved by members will be published. This site is supported by Veterans and their families, as well as public donations and advertising, and is purchased via the CombatVets Store.
HOW IT STARTED: CombatVets.net, org, com was registered in October, 1999. This Veteran Service Organization was a subsidiary of Internet Commercial Advantage Inc. (INTCA). INTCA assets were acquired by LovedOnes Inc., which assumed control of IT support for the CombatVets Network. It continues to provide member services and publishes free Bios/Memorials for CombatVets via its new system, and TJT Publishing LLC has covered any shortfall in funding.
Principle: Thomas Twitty Jr. (Tom). In 1998, Tom Twitty, a Vietnam Vet, was appointed Managing Editor of the American Ex-Prisoners of War “EX-POW Bulletin Magazine,” which was established in 1942. His work was responsible for upgrading this national magazine to a full-color coated stock and creating its new Logo and Website. This exposure to Veteran Publishing underscored the need for a Veterans’ Interactive Website that makes more information available to all Veterans. CombatVets.net offered self-publishing of Veterans’ Bios and Memorial Capability. The CombatVets.net website offers membership to Combat Veterans and Families without fanfare, dues, meetings, or parades. Twitty served with the U.S. Army 231st Reserve unit based in St. Petersburg, FL. This unit was activated and participated in extensive action throughout the Mekong Delta of Vietnam in 1968-69. Tom Twitty published a Book on Amazon, “Mekong Delta Yacht Club,” in August 2025, compiling stories from the company’s surviving members. Note: the Army’s 231st Reserve was activated in May 1968, 57 years prior.
Roy Livingstone – POW Editor, CombatVets.net, Commander of American Ex-Prisoners of War Seminole Barbed Wire Chapter, Tampa Bay, FL. Roy has been in Advertising, Franchise Sales, and Marketing, and is the owner of Sr. Golfer Magazine. Roy retired around 1990 and became very active in the POW cause. He was instrumental in upgrading editorial content and fully supported the upgrade in quality of print production and formation of the EX-POW website. He is a proponent of the digital future and has the vision to promote this technology to his peers. Roy was also the contributing Editor for Web Partners Stalag 17B and Vice Commander of the Florida State Chapter of American Ex-Prisoners of War. Before his death, Roy’s most recent project was www.POWnews.com. He passed this site on to CombatVets Network and passed away in 2010. We encourage you to visit this site and view Roy’s Bio below. Roy and his crew were shot down over Germany on a bombing mission.
Click Here to view Roy Livingstone’s Video Bio online.
Also, a Video of Roy’s Life that you will enjoy to the tune of Hogan’s Heroes