Louis to the MEPS station and they said how quick do you want to go to basic training? And I said right away. "It's kind of like stink on a skunk - once you get it you're not getting rid of it. He said once the idea to join took root their journey began.
My son was born when I was in basic training, so the first time I had seen my son was in the parking lot of this building over here, Building 6050."Įstep said to this day he's not sure what possessed him to call a recruiter.
"I had two and-a-half kids because back then you couldn't have three children to enlist, so I had to enlist before the third one was born. "Who would have thought that when my wife came to visit me for the first time at basic training, that 20-something years later I would be the sergeant major of the brigade in the same parking lot."Įstep also had a stint as the operations sergeant major of 2nd Battalion, 4th Field Artillery in the same building before going to Fort Campbell, Ky., and returning as the 434th FA CSM.Įstep married his wife, Erica, out of high school in 1982, and at the time he signed up for the Army in 1990 she was carrying their third child. "Some days I have walked and just said you know I remember marching this road as a private, I remember marching Soldiers on this road as a drill sergeant and now I'm walking this road as the brigade sergeant major, and I have the responsibility of all these training units," said Estep. Edward Estep, 434th Field Artillery Brigade CSM, can retrace his Army career simply by walking from the brigade headquarters building across the parking lot to Building 6050. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL 2 / 2 Show Caption + Hide Caption – (Photo Credit: U.S. Estep went from trainee, to drill sergeant, to sergeant major all in Building 6050. Edward Estep, 434th Field Artillery Brigade CSM, stands where he was once a Soldier in Basic Combat Training.
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