The Colonels finished their season with a win-loss record of three wins, seven losses.

Armstrong's statistics for the season were 35 punts at an average distance of 48.4 yards with four punts inside the 10-yard line. He is ranked third in the state in average distance.

Armstrong said he had found the adjustment to US football difficult at first.

"It was a lot harder to play than it looks on television," he said.

"But I think I'm adjusting to it well.

"It's actually easier to kick because it has more of a point on the ends so you can get onto the torpedo very easily.

"The biggest crowd we have played in front of was about 2000 people.

"It was good to see them all sitting in the stands watching me kick."

Armstrong said he never planned to become a punter and had moved to Missouri Military Academy to get a different sort of education.

"I went over in January just as an experience thing," he said. "I thought that a military school might be something different so we looked at some schools and MMA looked the best."

He said his classses were not much different from Australia although the school had a higher standard of discipline.

Armstrong, who was recently promoted to Sergeant, said students had room inspections every morning at 6.45am and did military drills and formation marching on weekends.

"There isn't a lot of army stuff during the school week except for uniform inspections every morning at 6.45am," he said.

"This is when they check to make sure your shoes and belt are shined and everything looks good.

"On the weekends is when most of the military stuff happens; there are room inspections every Saturday morning where they check for dust, make sure your clothes are hung correctly and things like that.

"On Sunday we do review which is like a parade. Everyone stands in front of the faculty performing rifle movements. There are also some special weekends when we do army tasks such as a five- kilometre run with rifle, army boots and gear, obstacle courses and other things relating to the army."

He said the challenges of moving so far from home were difficult at first.

"There are times when it is tough, since I'm the only Australian, but once you get used to how everything works it is easy to deal with. There are more than 15 countries represented here. It is good to be able to experience so many different cultures in one place. Overall it has been good and I have enjoyed it."

Armstrong has had a busy sporting year, playing one senior Horsham District Football League game for his old club, Noradjuha-Quantong, in August while at home during the US summer holidays as well as several junior and reserves matches.

Armstrong said he had loved his time in the US.

"The main thing I've taken from it is that you never know where you will end up in life," he said. "I never thought I would be at school in America or playing American football."