Aside from the 'ongoing road trip' aspect, this has been my entire existence: fighting and killing monsters, how to contend with them, and contend with the troops assigned alongside me.

I do not doubt your experiences. But I have seen what happens when you work a group of untrained civilians into a frightened, hair-trigger froth over actual spies among us, where there was a foe to find. Without a foe to find, either we become the boy who cried dragon, or we turn on each other in a frenzy of fear for each perceived 'flaw' in our 'acting'.