Argh. You just refuse to understand. YES, sic does mean "written exactly as it stands in the original." But it is only employed when the reader might otherwise think that the transcriber had made a mistake. It's the transcriber's way of saying: "I didn't make the mistake; the original author did."
In the current context, it's ABC's way of saying, "yes, the friend really did say that he'd see SPC Donica again, as odd as that sounds."
Now who's confused?