Ground-breaking Australian study creates world-first tool to help veterans transition to civilian life

Veterans have a greater chance of successfully transitioning into civilian life thanks to world-first research.

After completing two adrenalin-charged tours of Afghanistan and East Timor, Tim Thomas swapped the frontline for a quieter existence running his own coffee shop.

But the transition back to civilian life has not been easy for the former Australian special forces commando.

“I had it in my head that I would die over there, so when I didn’t and I came home I thought ‘what am I going to do now?’ I had a mission focus … and now the hardest thing I’ve got to do is decide when I’m having lunch,” the proud father of two said.

“I had no formal qualifications and I was used to high stimuli.

“I wasn’t…