I did Google this but came up empty for how things work now vs. when I played a long time ago.  It used to be I could attach parachutes to the SRB's and have the decoupler and parachute trigger at the same time. SRB's would float nicely back down to Kerbin.  But now I can't seem to find a way to recover them.  I'd especially like to be able to recover the kickback boosters. But when I have the parachutes open just before decoupling the boosters they're always destroyed. Thanks for the help!