I was thinking about how in Man of Steel we learn that Lois had been embedded at one point in the past with a military unit (I am half surprised they did not say either "Afghanistan" or "Iraq" in that line, but I think that is what we were meant to think.)

This is definitely a far cry from Lois in Lois and Clark, where she is a city beat reporter. Is this the first time we have Lois have a background of having been a war correspondent?

It's a far cry from LnC Lois but it's definitely not out of the realm of possibility. It's been a staple of Lois that she would be assigned to out-of-country assignments from time to time in the 1960s and 1970s (mostly in the "Lois Lane: Superman's Girlfriend" or Superman Family books). In fact, Lois was a traveling reporter just before she got married to Clark. The beginning of the Wedding Album has her returning from an assignment to find a non-superpowered Clark.

Actually, IIRC it's not. I'm sure I recall that our very own Lois was just such an embedded war correspondant.

Somewhere on the net (I used to have a copy somewhere but it's long gone, I fear) there is the detail of what those Kerth Awards Lois had in her trophy cabinet were actually for - their inscriptions. Noted down by a fan who had done the tour.

IIRC, one was for an article on sexual harrassment (might even have been sexual harrassment in the miliary, but I'm not 100% on that), another for shadowing the Presidental election campaign...and one for her articles as a war correspondant, embedded with the troops.

I'll have to go see if I can track it down. Must be out there somewhere still, you would imagine...

ETA: Ha! Actually found it courtesy of CarolM in an old thread right here. Oh, we are good. . Here it is:

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Looks like some good fodder for more fanfics!

Would be interesting to see just Lois stories for those, no Clark. Of the main cast members Perry is to only one I can think of that would be around. Jimmy started just before Clark, Cat and her don't get along, she hadn't met Lex, maybe Lucy, Star and/or Dr. Friskin.

Or we could incorporated them into late on when Clark was involved. It would have been nice as to see as they show up to Fort Truman in the episode with Molly someone officer say to Lois, "I liked the articles you wrote while you were embedded with our unit in the gulf".

On the other hand, we might see an officer say "Not Lane again, I just barely cleaned up all the flack from the last time she was here."

Somehow I think this is much more likely.

I guess the fact that Lois was a war correspondant is also hinted at in the text of "Lois and Clark". In the pilot when they are about to see a dead Samuel Pratt Lois says, "Don't be silly, I've seen it all, war, crime, famine". I guess she was probably reporting in Somalia just a few months before Clark showed up.

Well we do know from her comments on the Congo during the Alt-Clark episode that there may have been an assignment that either she went to and either escaped by the skin of her teeth (or a certain someone saved her without her knowing) or she didn't.

I've been working on a story where Clark saves Lois in the Congo. the big problem is that I also am trying to make it so that neither of them actually meet there. I am thinking though that since canon never 100% says that Clark never saw Lois before going to the DP, I maybe will give up on the him not meeting her bit.