Please notice in my kilt above that the same stripe goes right down the middle of each pleat.

In your photo I assume that the fabric with the basting is the apron edge and that you then have three pleats.

The first pleat does no appear to have the same center element as the next two. The second appears to have the white stripe along or near the edge. And the third appears to have the white stripe centered.

Am I seeing this correctly?

I guess my confusion comes from the terms you are using. You write that you are doing "a military pleat with an edge stripe as the center of the pleat".

I assume that what you meant to say, and how it is described in TAoK, is " Knife Pleating to Stripe using the white stripe with red element to the right".