"T2 established John's dob as 28 Feb 1985
T3 established John's death as 4 July 2032

T:SCC pilot sent John forward from a date in Sept 1999 to an equivalent date in Sept 2008: thus for dates post that Sept 1999 date John is physically 9 years younger than the chronological date would suggest.
As S2 ended John is in fact approaching his 16th birthday."

Why would you think John was sent to 2008 in the pilot?

Here's a close up of the bank vault TDE:

http://www.sarahconnorfans.com/photo/6096107/Pilot+Time+Machine+3

If he arrived in 2007, then he would be physically 8 years younger than the chronological date would suggest, not 9 years.

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yes, I like Bale as John Connor and Yelchin as teen Kyle Reese, they are great. Yelchin looks alike Michael...

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Christian Bale FTW!

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"yeah, john could take on a terminator one on one and win. that would really give him a taste for it and set him on the path he's meant for...like it."

I'll go with that. Add in:

1. Empathy: the leader of mankind in the future is supposed to be someone that everyone trusts. Who he is now will not cut it, because he can't listen to the heartbeat of humanity.

2. He needs improved relationships with everyone in his life. The current trust no one storyline isn't going to make a worldwide leader or a general who can tie his shoes. It won't even make a sergeant that a squad would listen too.

3. As has been hinted at in other posts here, he needs charisma. It isn't enough for the storyline to say he's the boss, he has to be an alpha male at some point. The writers and the actors have to show why people want to follow him. There are people that humanity will follow blindly into the gates of Hell, John Connor is supposed to be one of those people.

4. More risk for a better purpose, John leads from the front not the rear bunker, so he really has to start becoming the warrior the world will need him to be. That means accessing danger, making real plans, moving with others and making things happen. The three principle characters he is with: Sarah, Derek and Cameron all have the tools to teach him what he needs to know, but he has to learn from them and take control of his own destiny.

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"Time logic is a mess in Terminator Series/Movies

Think about this, if John is really going to die as a young boy then it will not be an older John in the future.
In other words why send a protector to myself in the past if I still alive in the future."

That is actually a really good point, well either one of these could happen if John does not send a protector back.

1) Sarah Conner is killed, John is never born. Future John Connor starts to fade away like Back To the Future? - hmm i dont think so.

2) The Future Continues, Skynet looses, mankind rebuild, 2000 years later, a new computer is built takes over the world. lol

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I’m currently writing a story that involves a set piece battle in the future ( whether I post it or not depends if I think it’s any good) anyway it got me thinking about what the structure of Johns command would be like.
Rank isn’t just to say who’s top dog, it designates what unit types/numbers you command. For example a lieutenant commands a platoon of approximately 11-44 soldiers give or take and a captain commands 2 platoons or more called a company and so forth.
Perry is a one star General (Brigadier General) so he is either a deputy commander to commanding General of a division or is the commander of a brigade size unit, 3000-5000 strong
John is a four star General (General) and can command anything from 50000-1000000 soldiers, that is, multiple divisions (Corps) or Army (Corps or multiple Corps)
I some how doubt that John has that many troops under his command so I think his command structure while following general military principles is probably akin more to the French resistance of WW2 with “cells” rather than the regular army chain of command. Each “cell” would be independent and wouldn’t know the location of other “cells”, they would have a set zone of operation and wouldn’t be any larger than Company size as larger formations would find it harder to avoid detection.
A cell could be commanded by any rank from lieutenant to colonel regardless of actual unit size. It would be conceivable that officers of varying rank survived JD but lack the troop numbers to justify that rank so I envisioned a divvying up process of the available officers to the various “cells”

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"Maybe but we will have to find out for sure. He seems pretty white to me. Unless that what his new fake id may say about him in 2007"

What does race have to do with anything? Excluding in some anthropological outlooks race coincides with nationality (paticularly in Mexico)...but in this day and age you can be Haitian and be white racially---of course in Haiti you'd be considered Black even if you made Frosty the Snowman tan in comparison.

The only group that is not a racial group is Latino/a. Since every country taht speaks spanish in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean are of mixed descent unless they can say otherwise....which not many can.

So being "white" doesn't stop you from being Mexican or even Chinese for that matter.

As for his status...he's a US citizen. He'd have dual. Only if he was Haitian would he not have dual, he'd have to choose. I realize that Sarah was driving to Mexico at the end of T1 and she could have very well aided with the Zappatista movement, but when I was thinking of Guerilla warfare I figured she went down to Souh America like Columbia or stayed in Central like Nicaragua.

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