"Thieves" is a song by American industrial metal band Ministry.
 It is the opening track from the band's fourth studio album, "The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste" (1989).
 The song's lyrics deal mainly with political corruption.
 The song includes dialogue samples from R. Lee Ermey's drill instructor character in "Full Metal Jacket".
 Ministry's version was featured in the 1992 science fiction film "Freejack", also in the 2009 video game "Brütal Legend".
The Lebel Model 1886 rifle (French: Fusil Modèle 1886 dit "Fusil Lebel") is also known as the "Fusil Mle 1886 M93", after a bolt modification was added in 1893.
 It is an 8 mm bolt action infantry rifle that entered service in the French Army in 1887.
 It is a repeating rifle that can hold eight rounds in its forestock tube magazine, one round in the transporter plus one round in the chamber.
 The Lebel rifle has the distinction of being the first military firearm to use smokeless powder ammunition.
 The new propellant powder, ""Poudre B"," was nitrocellulose-based and had been invented in 1884 by French chemist Paul Vieille.
 Lieutenant Colonel Nicolas Lebel contributed a flat nosed 8 mm full metal jacket bullet (""Balle M"," or ""Balle Lebel"").
 Twelve years later, in 1898, a solid brass pointed (spitzer) and boat-tail bullet called ""Balle D"" was retained for all 8mm Lebel ammunition.
 Each case was protected against accidental percussion inside the tube magazine by a primer cover and by a circular groove around the primer cup which caught the tip of the following pointed bullet.
 Featuring an oversized bolt with front locking lugs and a massive receiver, the Lebel rifle was a durable design capable of long range performance.
 In spite of early obsolete features, such as its tube magazine and the shape of 8mm Lebel rimmed ammunition, the Lebel rifle remained the basic weapon of French line infantry during World War I (1914–1918).
 Altogether, 3.45 million Lebel rifles were produced by the three French state factories between 1887 and 1916.
Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 British-American war film directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick.
 The screenplay by Kubrick, Michael Herr, and Gustav Hasford was based on Hasford's novel "The Short-Timers" (1979).
 Its storyline follows a platoon of U.S. Marines through their training, primarily focusing on two privates, Joker and Pyle, who struggle to get through camp under their foul-mouthed drill instructor, Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, and the experiences of two of the platoon's Marines in the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War.
 The film's title refers to the full metal jacket bullet used by soldiers.
 The film was released in the United States on June 26, 1987.
Full Metal Jacket Diary is a book written by American author, actor and photographer Matthew Modine and published by Rugged Land October 25, 2005.
 The book contains photos and diary entries of his experiences over a two-year period while working on the epic Stanley Kubrick film, "Full Metal Jacket".
Ronald Lee Ermey (born March 24, 1944), known professionally as R. Lee Ermey, or even Lee Ermey, is an American actor and voice actor, best known for his role as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in "Full Metal Jacket", which earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
 He is a former United States Marine Corps staff sergeant and an honorary gunnery sergeant; during his tenure in the U.S. Marine Corps, he served as a drill instructor.
Ed O'Ross (born July 4, 1946) is an American character actor known for his work as Itchy in "Dick Tracy", Colonel Perry in "Universal Soldier", Lt. Touchdown in Full Metal Jacket, ruthless Georgian mobster Viktor Rostavili in "Red Heat", and police detective Cliff Willis in "The Hidden".
Adam Baldwin (born February 27, 1962) is an American actor.
 He is known for starring in "Full Metal Jacket" (1987) as Animal Mother, as well as in the television series "Firefly" and its continuation film "Serenity" as Jayne Cobb.
 His roles include Stillman in "Ordinary People" (1980) Colonel John Casey in "Chuck" and more recently Mike Slattery in "The Last Ship".
Next of Kin is a 1989 American action thriller film directed by John Irvin and starring Patrick Swayze and Liam Neeson, with Adam Baldwin, Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton and Ben Stiller in one of his earliest roles.
 The screenplay was based on a story of the same title, both written by Michael Jenning.
A sabot (UK and Int.: , ), (US: ) is a structural device used in firearm or cannon ammunition to keep a sub-caliber flight projectile, such as a relatively small bullet or arrow-type projectile, in the center of the barrel when fired, if the bullet has a significantly smaller diameter than the bore diameter of the weapon used.
 The sabot component in projectile design is more than simply the relatively thin, tough and deformable seal known as a driving band or obturation ring needed to trap propellant gases behind a projectile, and also keep the projectile centered in the barrel, when the outer shell of the projectile is only slightly smaller in diameter than the caliber of the barrel.
 Driving bands and obturators are used to seal these full-bore projectiles in the barrel because of manufacturing tolerances; there always exists some gap between the projectile outer diameter and the barrel inner diameter, usually a few thousandths of an inch; enough of a gap for high pressure gasses to slip by during firing.
 Driving bands and obturator rings are made from material that will deform and seal the barrel as the projectile is forced from the chamber into the barrel.
 Small caliber jacketed bullets do not normally employ driving bands or obturators because the jacket material, for example copper or gilding metal, is deformable enough to serve that function, and the bullet is made slightly larger than the barrel for that purpose, (see Full metal jacket bullet and driving band).
 Sabots certainly use driving bands and obturators, because the same manufacturing tolerance issues exist when sealing the saboted projectile in the barrel, but the sabot itself is a more substantial structural component of the in-bore projectile configuration (Drysdale 1978).
 Refer to the two APFSDS (Armor Piercing Fin Stabilized Discarding Sabot) pictures on the right to see the substantial material nature of a sabot to fill the bore diameter around the sub-caliber arrow-type flight projectile, compared to the very small gap sealed by a driving band or obturator to mitigate what is known classically as windage.
 More detailed cutaways of the internal structural complexity of advanced APFSDS saboted long rod penetrator projectiles can be found at reference 2.
The Boys in Company C, directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Stan Shaw, Andrew Stevens, Craig Wasson, James Canning, and Michael Lembeck, is a 1978 film about United States Marine Corps recruits preparing for duty, and their subsequent combat in the Vietnam War.
 It was among the first Vietnam War films to appear after the Vietnam Era, and was also the first role for R. Lee Ermey of "Full Metal Jacket" fame.
 "The Boys in Company C" is the first in Furie's Vietnam War motion picture trilogy, followed by 2001's "Under Heavy Fire" and 2006's "The Veteran".

Question: Who directed a 1989 American action thriller film that starred an actor known for starring in "Full Metal Jacket" ?
Answer: John Irvin