The US Army do not put their rotary pilots through any fixed wing training prior to starting helicopter training.
It will be a cost saving, and reduce the time on the pilots course. All very attractive ideas.
I recommend that instead of the the fixed wing hours, all student pilots should be forced to purchase MS flight sim, a laptop and joystick, much cheaper.
Grading followed by straight to helicopters, stroke of admin genius.
Personally I think it a bad idea. I found those few hours of chippy at the beginning extremely valuable.