My iPad dilemma

I want an iPad for my upcoming year long deployment to Afghanistan. Alas, I want one without a camera so I can take it into classified environments. Which poses a problem.

I can justify through moderate self delusion paying for a 64GB model iPad 2 if I am only going to use it for entertainment and load it up before I go with movies that I probably can't download over there quickly (or at all) due to the extreme suck of deployed internet speeds.

I can also justify a dirt cheap discounted 16MB original iPad if I'm going to be loading it up with work related .pdf and books that might be more convenient to read on that than my Kindle. Alas, there are none of those left.

What the Ft. Carson PX is sitting on (tax free!) are ten 64MB iPads marked down a measly $100 to $589. They seem unlikely to go anywhere unless they get marked down another $50 or $100.

Does anyone think that's likely in the next month or so? I'm caught between ordering an iPad 2 that I'd probably receive right before deployment or waiting for further discounting on the originals and risking getting nothing.