She received Special Ops training for the film to round out her character's skillset.

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And today, here at Fort Campbell, I had the privilege of meeting the extraordinary Special Ops folks who honored that promise.

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Much about Cairo, and the Special Ops dogs, remains a mystery, as one former veterinary technician at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, discovered a few years ago.

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And then afterwards, I took the time not only to meet with General Petraeus and some of the other commanding officers, but I also met with a group of our special ops forces.

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The running man returns not Jason Bourne but a new character, Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner), another hard-ass special-ops agent who defies his superiors and keeps on moving when they try to eliminate him, racing from continent to continent and across shantytown rooftops, through crowded marketplaces, down alleyways.

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For example, once the code-morphing software has translated a particular chunk of x86 code into micro-ops it can store the translated chunk in a special memory to avoid having to translate it again.

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Techies may further appreciate fancy gadgets like MadCatz' "Call of Duty: Black Ops"-branded Dolby True 5.1 Gaming Headset, or PDP's special "TRON" collector's edition controllers for PlayStation 3, Wii or Xbox 360.

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