The General also had the baseball cap style DBDU hat. It wasn’t even authorized or available to the rank and file soldiers. If you did have a desert camouflaged hat, it was the boonie style.
what about the brown leather boots. When my dad stepped off the plane back around the 28th of march 1991 he had a pair of brown boots on. When were those issued because they looked like work boots?
Brown leaher boots?? Never had 'em, never saw 'em.
You said your dad was Air Force? That might have been unique to them.
Dunno about the Air Scouts, but it’s possible he had the steel-toed work boots issued to mechs and ordies… Army steel-toes at that time were black, with a short upper that makes the guy that’s wearin’ them look like he’s either un-bloused or bloused at “half-staff”…
BTW… If you ever model figures from the Tiger Brigade during ODS, here’s (on the left) the proper location for the SSI… This is unique to the 2AD… According to my First Shirt, when I asked upon my arrival to Bravo 3/3FA-2AD, the division patch went on the left front above the US ARMY tape because Patton had ordered it placed there on the field jackets in WW2… He “wanted those N azi Sumb*tches to KNOW who was shootin’ 'em in the belly”… So the 2AD carried on with that tradition until it was (sadly) deactivated in '91… Only on the field jacket and Class A jacket were the patches worn on the left shoulder…The patch on the right sleeve is the Former Wartime Unit or “Combat Patch”… 
That boot turned out to be highly unsuccessful in Vietnam, and the enemy wasn’t buyin’ it… Mainly because the size of the “foot-print”, a bunch of size 11 “bare feet” in a land made up of size 5s… Another drawback was that in soft ground, the “foot-print” would have a ring around it, from the edge of the boot-soles sinking in too… Made the print look like someone had come behind and dawn a line around every bare foot, lol…
Another drawback was that the boot was lousy and painful to walk in on firm ground, and in wet areas, like coming out of rivers onto rocks or logs, slippery as hell… They also could often lose a chunk of it’s sole, and the print would show that as well, yet there were no copious amounts of blood in the track (which would be very likely if someone were still even able to walk after having a big toe or heel torn off and missing)…
What eventually happened was that MACV ended up air-dropping large numbers of the smaller-sized, regular jungle boots all around villages and hamlets, where the locals would find them and wear them, leaving gobs and gobs of regular US Jungle boot-prints all over the place, and that allowed the Snake-eater’s boot-tracks to blend-in easily…