Two or three years ago AMC removed the parachutes from the KC-135 fleet.
I was assigned to AWACS in the late 70's. We had chutes in every crew seat. (Around 30) It was deemed that the aircrew were too dumb to preflight their parachutes.
Prior to every flight, L.S. had to do complete 30 day inspections with the exception of signing the logbook. After I left AWACS they put all of the chutes in a big red bag under the bunks in back. They had a flight where they hit an air pocket and the big red bag took flight. When it landed it broke the floor of the jet. TAC removed them, and had the escape hatch buttoned up.