A Defense Department order on Feb. 5 to root out “extremists” in the ranks has drawn fire from the first former Green Beret to serve in Congress. Senior officers from prior administrations agree with his concerns. “When the Chinese Navy is five times bigger than ours, when China is stealing our tech right and left, and putting more assets in space, where does the Secretary of Defense see our priorities?” said Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.) to The Epoch Times. “My concern is the message this memo sends.” President Joe Biden’s Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, has from before he took office emphasized finding the enemies in uniform. “The job of the Department of Defense is to keep America safe from our enemies. But we can’t do that if some of those enemies lie within our own ranks,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told the Senate Armed Services Committee during confirmation hearings. The Secretary of …