So the w-2 gives a written employee address that reflects the state of deployment in the zip code-- which is a different state than the state of residence in box 15.
It was the drop down for w-2 state that made this error impossible to clear since no military "AP" entry was an option there--only actual state abbreviations. It took tweaking the imported address info and especially the state of deployment and then navigating to an entry option that allowed a direct free choice entry of 2 -letter option as "AP" that cleared it finally from error (since only states can be entered in the standard view).
