 Returning to Fort Hood, Texas, Cline became an anti-war activist, serving as a civilian organizer of active duty servicemen at one of the first GI Coffeehouses, the Oleo Strut, in Killeen, Texas and producing a one-sheet underground newspaper on politics and veterans issues called "Fatigue Press", which was distributed clandestinely on the military base.He explained, "I was sent down to Fort Hood and that's when I really got hooked up with the GI movement.