The military outsources just about everything else, why not just send the accepted students to the local rotorcraft school where the taxpayers could drop $12,000 and the students would have a private certificate plodding around in an R22. Just the basic flying and navigating skills.
Feel free to train them in anything they want after that, but for the basic hovering and flying skills, why have a new airframe acquisition and maintenance program when all that already exists in dozens of places throughout the US now?
I get the whole "the military is better" fever, but the military would then have plenty of time to indoctrinate the student into the "military" way.