A pro license, though, doesn't give you seat time. Most pilots that are making the big bucks have thousands of hours of seat time, and that requires either owning your own helicopter, or somehow having a job that you fly someone else's helicopter. Military is about the only place they will take someone with zero experience and let them fly.

Midshipmen can choose to an extent, but yes, there is a chance you would be assigned to something different. Of course, you would need to be an officer to be a pilot, so that might be a problem as well. As far as getting in shape, well, that's what boot camp is for h: